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Date Sent: 2010-12-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 22, 2010 PM edition |
FCC creates monster to control Internet -- Gov't. liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010
Wikileaks full mirror site up and running... for now -- When the gold market tops… -- Fusion Centers and Homeland Security: Watching Our Freedom Die -- Confirmed: WikiLeaks’ next target is Bank of America, Assange says -- Bank Of America Registers BrianMoynihanBlows.com And BrianMoynihanSucks.com
-- Down Argentine Way -- House Values Fall 30%, But Property Taxes Keep
Rising -- Fraud As A Business Model Endorsed by The Fed And OCC -- No Congress Since 1960s Makes Most Laws for Americans as 111th -- U.S. teen birth rate at all-time low; economy cited -- Denninger vs Mish: At War Over Dennis Kucinich's Bill To End The Fed --
Craigslist removes adult services listings from international sites --
OpenBSD Chief Now Believes Gov't. Contractor Tried to Write Backdoors
-- Travel-trained: Americans take security with sigh -- Christmas Sweater Club Punished At Local High School -- Obama spy's chief appears ignorant of British plot -- Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax -- The Army: Be all that you can’t know -- Engineer Hopes to Buy Satellite to Provide Free Internet -- DEFEND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN YOUR STATE! -- Peoria pursues pharmacy ID checks
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News Link • Internet
FCC creates a monster, gives it control of the Internet
12-22-2010
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PC World
This morning the Federal Communications Commission turned the open Internet into the Grimm's fairy tale of pyramid schemes. One in which nothing changes, nothing new is created, but those with more power on the 'net get to feed on those with less.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010: Treasury
12-22-2010
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Reuters
The U.S. government fell deeper into the red in fiscal 2010 with net liabilities swelling more than $2 trillion as commitments on government debt and federal benefits rose.
The Financial Report of the United States, which applies corporate-style acc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks full mirror site up and running... for now
12-22-2010
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http://mirror.wikileaks.info
So, go get your goodies now while you still can :)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Precious Metals
When the gold market tops…
12-22-2010
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sovereignman.com
At this point, everyone will want to own gold, and the signs will change from “WE BUY GOLD” to “WE SELL GOLD”… and they’ll be everywhere.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Fusion Centers and Homeland Security: Watching Our Freedom Die
12-22-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
According to numerous law enforcement advisories, training manuals, seminars and other literature, the federal government defines political activism, flying American flags, wearing Levi jeans, being nice,... all as signs of domestic terror.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Weds. December 22nd 2010
12-22-2010
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LewRockwell
Who Predicted the Housing Bubble? - Defend Bradley Manning - The Evil Paul Krugman - Mountains of Debt, No Jobs, 16 shocking facts about the college education bubble - Municipal Meltdown Dead Ahead, 100 US city governments could collapse in 2011, say
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Confirmed: WikiLeaks’ next target is Bank of America, Assange says
12-22-2010
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RawStory
Shares in Bank of America have fallen amid speculation that it was a WikiLeaks target.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Bank Of America Registers BrianMoynihanBlows.com And BrianMoynihanSucks.com
12/21/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Is Brian Moynihan worried about something (perhaps related to Wikileaks) or is Bank of America just practicing some prudent defensive brand management.
According to Domain Name Wire, the bank recently registered BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihan
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Reported by:
Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Down Argentine Way
12-22-2010
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LewRockwell.com
There are many ominous parallels between Argentina and the U.S. and the question often asked is can America avoid the economic consequences that Argentina suffered from a fascist government combined with government debt and currency collapse? I belie
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EPA and Bayer's Recklessness
12-22-2010
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arclein
Clothianidin has been widely used on corn, the largest U.S. crop, since 2003. Suppliers sell seeds pre-treated with it. Like other members of the neonicotinoid family of pesticides, clothianidin gets "taken up by a plant's vascular system and expre
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
HIV Cure Indicated
12-22-2010
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arclein
For a period of 38 months after the stem cell transplant the patient continued to receive immunosuppressive treatment to prevent rejection of the stem cells. During this time the donor CD4 cells repopulated the mucosal immune system of the patient’s
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Lightning Bolt X-Rays Imaged
12-22-2010
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arclein
Dwyer's team has created a customized camera that has 30 detectors made from a combination of sodium iodide and photomultiplier tubes, each measuring 3 × 3 inch. The device, which is approximately the size of a standard refrigerator, is also equippe
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Comet Carbon and the Oort Cloud
12-22-2-10
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arclein
An accurate ionization lifetime is critical to understanding the amount of carbon released from comets, said Jeff Morgenthaler, senior scientist at PSI.
A shorter lifetime suggests that the carbon content of some comets may be lower than previousl
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: Local
House Values Fall 30%, But Property Taxes Keep Rising
12-22-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Local governments are responding to declining revenues by jacking up all taxes and fees. To counteract sharp declines in property values, municipalities are raising their property taxe rates, squeezing more out of properties even as they drop...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fraud As A Business Model Endorsed by The Fed And OCC
12-22-2010
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Market-ticker.org
The Fed, along with the more bank-friendly Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, is resisting moves to craft rules cracking down on banks that charge illegal fees and carry out improper foreclosures.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
No Congress Since 1960s Makes Most Laws for Americans as 111th
12-22-2010
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Bloomberg
However history judges the 535 men and women in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate the past two years, one thing is certain: The 111th Congress made more law affecting more Americans since the “Great Society” legislation of the 1960s.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Census
U.S. teen birth rate at all-time low; economy cited
12-22-2010
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AP
The U.S. teen birth rate in 2009 fell to its lowest point in 70 years of record-keeping " a decline that stunned experts who believe it's partly due to the recession.
The birth rate for teenagers fell to 39 births per 1,000 girls ages 15-19, accor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Craigslist removes adult services listings from international sites
12-22-2010
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AP
Craigslist has confirmed it removed its controversial adult services section from its international sites, Connecticut's attorney general said, 4 months after it did the same for its US sites. This came after officials challenged whether Craigslist w
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
OpenBSD Chief Now Believes Gov't. Contractor Tried to Write Backdoors
12-22-2010
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PC World
The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system now believes a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Travel-trained: Americans take security with sigh
12-22-2010
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AP
Explosive snow globes? You've got to be kidding, Robyn Burford thought when security inspectors at the Portland, Ore., airport demanded she hand over her two glitter-filled souvenirs.
The snow globes might contain explosive nitroglycerin, an offic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Christmas Sweater Club Punished At Local High School
12-22-2010
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They call themselves the "Christmas Sweater Club" because they wear the craziest ones they can find. They also sing Christmas songs at school and try their best to spread Christmas cheer. Now all 10 of them are in trouble because of what they did at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Bank Break Ins Leading to Litigation
12-22-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The lack of willingness of the local police to deem destroying property and unauthorized entry as criminal acts leaves wronged parties with litigation as their only recourse. And some are filing suits.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama spy's chief appears ignorant of British plot
12-22-2010
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AFP
President Obama's top aide on intelligence appeared to be completely unaware in a television interview of the arrests this week of 12 men accused of plotting an Al-Qaeda-inspired attack.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax
12-22-2010
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Washington Examiner
First, the great engine of growth in America is not the Northeast Megalopolis, which was growing faster than average in the mid-20th century, or California, which grew lustily in the succeeding half-century. It is Texas.
Its population grew 21 per
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
The Army: Be all that you can’t know
12-22-2010
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capitolhillblue.com
Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can’t answer basic math, science and reading questions...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Q&A: Engineer Hopes to Buy Satellite to Provide Free Internet
12-22-2010
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Space
One man's bankrupt satellite company is another man's opportunity to spread free Internet across the world. That's the hope of Kosta Grammatis, CEO and founder of ahumanright.org, who sees having an Internet connection as a basic necessity
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
DEFEND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN YOUR STATE!
12-22-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Resolution for Food Sovereignty WHEREAS All people are endowed by their Creator, at birth, with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and
WHEREAS Food is human sustenance and is a fundamen
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Surveillance
Peoria pursues pharmacy ID checks
12-21-2010
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The Arizona Republic
Plan to require fingerprinting to pick up certain prescriptions
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Reported by:
Steven Arthurs
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