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Date Sent: 2010-12-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 15, 2010 PM edition |
Bloodbath in Muni Bond Funds; Reasons for the Muni Selloff
The Espionage Act and the Death of American Freedoms -- A sad day for
the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks -- Fox News to
Host GOP Primary Debate Next May -- Boston Tea Party 2010 -- James Bovard: Why Bill of Rights Days Should be Anti-Politician Day -- Chavez seeks power to rule by decree for 1 year
-- Zillow: Phoenix-Area Homes Lost $36 Billion in 2010 -- Tea Party
Fascists: Allen West calls for mass censorship of US media -- "Cybersecurity Standards", Government Internet Control Gets Serious -- China Sells Long-Term US Treasury Bonds In October
-- Have You Seen "The Reality Report" with Gary Franchi? -- Jerry Brown
on California's Budget: "We've Been Living In Fantasy Land" -- Former Contractor Says FBI Put Back Door in OpenBSD
-- TIME's 2010 Person of the Year: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg --
Triplet Superconductivity Proven For First Time -- AIDS Treatment
Boosts African Economy -- Yuan-Ruble Trade Starts as Russia, China Shun Dollar -- Key to Repairing MS Damage Found
AZ: Bill of
Rights Day celebration, this evening with Gary Johnson & Bob Levy;
Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon at Goldwater Institute, tomorrow
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Bloodbath in Muni Bond Funds; Reasons for the Muni Selloff
12-15-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Reasons for the Muni Selloff 1. Unwinding of the "sure-thing" Quantitative Easing trade
2. Selloff in bonds in general because of budget and inflation concerns
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
iPhone snitch network launched
12-15-2010
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infowars.com
A new iPhone App with the misleading name ‘PatriotApp’ attempts to draw on the power of the patriot movement, turning smartphone users into a gigantic snitch network.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Whistleblowers
US Air Force Blocks Internet Access To Websites Posting WikiLeaks Documents
12-15-2010
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prisonplanet.com
The U.S. Air Force has blocked access for computers on its network to The New York Times, the Guardian, and at least 23 other websites carrying WikiLeaks documents, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks Mirrors
12-15-2010
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wikileaks.info
Find all the current Wikileaks Mirrors and Links here. Helpful, if the main site - wikileaks.org - is down.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
The Espionage Act and the Death of American Freedoms
12-15-2010
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Lew Rockwell Podcast
A deeply worried Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America, fears that both TSA actions and the threatened use of the 1917 Espionage Act against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - Lew Rockwell Podcast
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
A sad day for the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks
12-15-2010
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www.guardian.co.uk
Numerous US officials are calling for a resurrection of the US Espionage Act as a tool for prosecuting WikiLeaks. The dusting-off of the old law is all but certain. But the outcome of the constitutional dust-up that is sure to follow will result in t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Fox News to Host GOP Primary Debate Next May
12-15-2010
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mediabistro.com
“Fox News looks forward to presenting these key debates with the South Carolina Republican Party and giving the contenders an open forum to present their views at this critically important time in the country’s history,” said FNC senior VP Michael Cl
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
Boston Tea Party 2010
12-15-2010
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RealityReport.TV
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | Here is what the speakers, performers and guests of the Boston Tea Party 2010.
TAGS: reality report, gary franchi, boston tea party, sheriff mack, jordan page, g. edward griffin, gary johnson, adam kokesh
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Today on LewRockwell.com - Wednesday Dec 15th 2010
12-15-2010
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LewRockwell.com
The Ron Paul Hot Seat, Gary North on what terrifies Ben Bernanke - The Death of American Freedom, A Lew Rockwell podcast with Naomi Wolf - What the State Fears Most, Information in the hands of the people. Article by Jonathan Finegold Catalán
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
James Bovard: Why Bill of Rights Days Should be Anti-Politician Day
12-15-2010
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CounterPunch.org
Insofar as the feds trample the Bill of Rights, the government is illegitimate. Insofar as the government perennially violates the Bill of Rights, it becomes an aggressor against the American people.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Suicide Banker Ethics: Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush Targeting Latinos
12-15-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Part of Gingrich’s proposal would include establishing an ID card that would track a worker’s legal status.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
Chavez seeks power to rule by decree for 1 year
12-15-2010
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YahooNews
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday asked congress to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Zillow: Phoenix-Area Homes Lost $36 Billion in 2010
12-15-2010
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AZcentral.com
The national real-estate website Zillow.com reports that Phoenix-area homes will end up losing $36 billion in value during 2010. At least that's less than the $48.8 billion the region's homes depreciated in 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Tea Party Fascists: Allen West calls for mass censorship of US media
12-15-2010
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RawStory.com
The government should censor news agencies that report on US documents leaked by websites like WikiLeaks, according to a tea party-backed Republican who will soon represent the 22th district congressional of Florida.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
"Cybersecurity Standards", Government Internet Control Gets Serious
12-15-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md has introduced a bill that would require the government and the private sector to require minimum cybsersecurity standards for devices that connect to the Internet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
China Sells Long-Term US Treasury Bonds In October
12-15-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Looking at China we observe that the country actually sold off Long Term UST (while buying Short Term Bills): this means that the Fed, with its $966 billion in US paper is now untouchable at the top of all holders of US Treasurys.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Internet
Have You Seen "The Reality Report" with Gary Franchi?
12-15-2010
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RTR.ORG via RealityReport.TV
#74 - 'Killing ObamaCare' with Ron Paul, Sheriff Richard Mack, the Boston Tea Party - and more!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Jerry Brown on California's Budget: "We've Been Living In Fantasy Land"
12-15-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
California Budget Is "Much Worse Than I Thought -- We've Been Living In Fantasy Land"
Jerry Brown
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
Former Contractor Says FBI Put Back Door in OpenBSD
12-15-2010
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PC World
A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system. This means the FBI may have developed secret ways to snoop on encryp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
When Americans Lose Everything, They Start To Lose It (CNN VIDEO)
12-15-2010
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Prison Planet
Duke spray-painted a V for Vendetta sign on the wall before brandishing a gun and telling everyone apart from the school board members to leave the room.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
TIME's 2010 Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg
12-15-2010
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Time Magazine
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the center of change. Born in 1984, the same year the Macintosh computer was launched, he is both a product of his generation and an architect of it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
Triplet Superconductivity Proven For First Time
12-15-2010
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arclein
If a superconductor is brought into contact with a ferromagnetic material, the Cooper pairs are broken up along the shortest path and the superconductor becomes a normal conductor.
Cooper pairs cannot continue to exist in a singlet state in a fe
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
AIDS Treatment Boosts African Economy
12-15-2010
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arclein
A recently published paper in Public Economics documents a dramatic “Lazarus effect” in AIDS-affected households in rural Kenya when infirmed members received anti-retroviral therapy (ART). The study found that not only did the health of those treate
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robert klein
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News Link • Currencies
Yuan-Ruble Trade Starts as Russia, China Shun Dollar
12-15-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Moscow’s Micex exchange started trading the yuan against the ruble for the first time today, as Russia and China seek to reduce the use of dollars in trade.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Gerald Celente: Off With Their Heads 2.0 - The Trend has Begun!
12-14-2010
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Rense.com
The spontaneous attack on the Royal couple was the first salvo in what promises to be a long war between the people and the ruling classes. "Anyone questioning the intensity of the people's seething anger is either out of touch or in denial,"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
12-14-2010
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BBC via YouTube
'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically di
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Key to Repairing MS Damage Found
12-15-2010
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arclein
he study by scientists at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh has raised hopes of a new treatment within 15 years for the disabling neurological condition, which affects millions of people worldwide.
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robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Lost Civilization of the Persian Gulf
12-15-2010
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arclein
Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests.
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Want To Ruin Your Own Country? Assume Your Banks’ Liabilities
12-14-2010
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gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
Compare-and-contrast the fates of Ireland and Iceland
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Republican Members of FCIC to Shift Blame From Banks
12-15-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
In reality, both the runup to the crisis and its aftermath were on of the greatest wealth transfers from the citizenry at large to a comparatively small group of rentiers in the history of man.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Aldous Huxley Would Be Proud
12-15-2010
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AntiWar.com
“’If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you must get the consent of the ruled,’ he said. Those in power will do this primarily through ‘techniques of propaganda,’ by ‘bypassing the rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Honoring Bill of Rights Day
12-15-2010
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thecitizen.com/blogs
Dec. 15 is Bill of Rights Day. This year is the 219th anniversary of the adoption of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution"the Bill of Rights.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Man with HIV cured (stem cell transplant, first of it's kind)
12/13/2010
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the real news now
An HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant in 2007 has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the "Berlin Patient," received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia.
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The Real News
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