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Date Sent: 2011-01-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 18, 2011 PM edition |
States Warned of $2 Trillion Pensions Shortfall -- High Oil Price = Faster U.S. Economic Decline
Martin Luther King and the Empowerment of the War Machine: A Libertarian’s View (video) -- 'Explosive' Food Prices the Biggest Risk: Analyst -- Cold Fusion Breakthrough Announced -- America's Dunkirk: Foreigners Evacuate Money From US Mainland -- Go Montana! Lawmaker's New Proposal Would Hit Feds With Charges
-- JP Morgan Chase says it charged military families too much on
mortgages -- Elevator to Space Closer -- 50 years later, Eisenhower’s
grim warning on military profit rings true -- Utah city may use blimp as anti-crime spy in the sky -- Camden, NJ braces for deep police, fire cuts -- Turkey allowed US 'extraordinary rendition': WikiLeaks -- Sexting Prosecutor Claims Immunity -- Traveling man's gun arrest appealed to high court -- Response to shooting: Looser gun laws? -- Canada Bans Classic Dire Straits' Song From The Radio -- Israeli-Made Stuxnet Computer Virus Threatening Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Again? -- Dahr Jamail: Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help
-- Foreclosure-Gate: Securitization industry to reap the whirlwind? --
Town That Virgil Earp Tamed Faces The Threat Of Police Layoffs
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
States Warned of $2 Trillion Pensions Shortfall
01-18-2011
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CNBC.com
US public pensions face a shortfall of $2,500 billion that will force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services, according to the former chairman of New Jersey’s pension fund.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
High Oil Price = Faster Economic Decline For America
01-18-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
We are slowly becoming owned by foreigners. We are slowly being transformed into paupers in the land our forefathers conquered.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Martin Luther King and the Empowerment of the War Machine: A Libertarian’s View (video)
01-18-2011
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The International Libertarian
Welfare at home and warfare abroad are just flip sides of the same coin. If the left really wants to see Dr. King’s dream of peace come true they must face the reality that they can not give the government the tools it needs to wage war and expect it
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday Jan 18th 2010
01-18-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Dallas Fed Prez Attacks Ron Paul - More Lies About the Civil War - Central Banks Around the World Scare Me, Jim Rogers on the gold price, and his appreciation for silver and rice - America's Arab Puppets Are Going Down, And about time, too, Eric Marg
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
'Explosive' Food Prices the Biggest Risk: Analyst
01-18-2011
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CNBC
"These economies are clearly overheating and governments are putting measures in place to slow them down to fight inflationary pressure. More than anything else, food inflation is a problem," Gijsels said. "In countries were 70% to 80% and sometimes
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cold Fusion Breakthrough Announced
01-18-2011
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arclein
I estimate that the cost of energy made with this system will be below 1 cent/kWh, in case of electric power made by means of a Carnot cycle, and below 1 cent/4,000 M J in case of thermal power production for heating purposes.
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
America's Dunkirk: Foreigners Evacuate Money From US Mainland
01-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Once again the biggest threat continues to be the rotation by China out of US Treasurys and into other securities...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • States' Rights
Go Montana! Lawmaker's New Proposal Would Hit Feds With Charges
01-18-2011
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World Net Daily via Rense.com
...a requirement that federal agents work through and get permission from sheriffs before taking any action to arrest anyone, seize any object or search anywhere. (Publisher: Pay Attention Arizona 'Lawmakers'!)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
JP Morgan Chase says it charged military families too much on mortgages
01-17-2011
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9news, Denver
One of the nation's biggest banks, JP Morgan Chase, admits it has overcharged several thousand military families for their mortgages, including families of troops fighting in Afghanistan. The bank also says it improperly foreclosed on more than a do
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Disinformation Fog Intensifies As Economic Turmoil Develops
01-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Considering that over 8 million Americans have stopped using credit cards just since Christmas 2009, I think it much more likely that consumer demand in the U.S. is flat, or, still falling, despite the claims of the MSM:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College don't teach ya nuthin!
01-18-2011
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Associated Press
45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking or complex reasoning by their sophmore year, explaining much about the American electorate.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Elevator to Space Closer
01-18-2011
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arclein
Space scientists and engineers are looking at the possibility of designing an elevator to travel into space. It is also time that Indian research institutions looked at developing carbon nanotube composite fibre, nano epoxy and laser power beaming,"
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
50 years later, Eisenhower’s grim warning on military profit rings true
01-18-2011
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Rawstory
The term "military-industrial complex" entered the American lexicon 50 years ago today, when President Dwight Eisenhower warned of its dangers in an unusually frank farewell speech to the nation.
"This conjunction of an immense military establishm
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Hemp Seed Food Quality
01-18-2011
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arclein
The fact that the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) is used as food initially surprises and confuses most people. The public information system has largely restricted knowledge of hemp to its use for obtaining marijuana (Cannabis sativa), with its leaf co
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Man brought back to life after hours without heartbeat
01-18-2011
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A BRITISH man whose heart stopped for three-and-a-half hours was brought back to life by a machine that performed 20,000 life-saving chest compressions.
Engineer Arun Bhasin, 53, was found lying unconscious in Croydon, south London, in December in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Camden, NJ braces for deep police, fire cuts
01-18-2011
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AP
Yet another crisis is upon this burdened city, among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the country. Deep layoffs of city workers go into effect on Tuesday - cutting up to 383 jobs, or one-fourth of the city's employees.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Turkey allowed US 'extraordinary rendition': WikiLeaks
01-18-2011
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Economic Times
The US secret services used Turkey as a base to transport terrorism " suspects as part of its extraordinary rendition programme, German daily Die Welt reported today citing a WikiLeaks cable.
Some 24 CIA flights landed at Incirlik airport in south
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Sexting Prosecutor Claims Immunity
01-18-2011
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NBC News
The former Calumet County district attorney who resigned after a sexting scandal says he's immune from a civil lawsuit filed by a crime victim who claims he sexually harassed her. Ken Kratz says he was a public official at the time of the alleged har
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Traveling man's gun arrest appealed to high court
01-18-2011
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AP
Missed flights only inconvenience most people. A late flight landed Utah gun owner Greg Revell in jail for 10 days after he got stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City.
The Supreme
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Response to shooting: Looser gun laws?
01-18-2011
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Salon
Less than 10 days after the mass shooting in Tucson that killed six and left a congresswoman in critical condition, the briefly revived gun control conversation -- such as it was -- already appears to be over.
That fact is striking in itself, and
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Canada Bans Classic Dire Straits Song From The Radio
01-18-2011
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Business Insider
Canada has decided the classic Dire Straits song 'Money For Nothing' is too controversial for its airwaves. The line that's suddenly been deemed unacceptable after 25 years on the air is this: "See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue
01-18-2011
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The Guardian
The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site.
After reportedly sleeping with his sisters, killing for plea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Intelligence: Use and Abuse
Israeli-Made Stuxnet Computer Virus Threatening Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Again?
01/17/2011
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therealnewsnow
Several news agencies and media outlets report that a Israeli-developed computer virus has threatened to destroy the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. The Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom claims the statements are false, but the so-called rumor
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The Real News
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Dahr Jamail: Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help
01-18-2011
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ipsnews.net
In an emotionally charged meeting this week sponsored by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, fishermen, Gulf residents and community leaders vented their increasingly grave concerns about the widespread health issues...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Securitization industry to reap the whirlwind?
01-18-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
The securitization industry may be about to reap the whirlwind of its failure to take the need for reform seriously. As we’ve indicated, industry incumbents have adopted a denialist approach to widespread evidence of serious documentation problems...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Utah city may use blimp as anti-crime spy in the sky
01-18-2011
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Reuters.com
The airship entails military technology now available to local law enforcement, he said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Town That Virgil Earp Tamed Faces The Threat Of
Police Layoffs
01-18-2011
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LAtimes.com
Frontier lawman Virgil Earp tamed this wild railroad town more than a century ago, but talk to Colton residents today and they'll tell you this San Bernardino County community is once again in desperate need of cleaning up.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Bank of America Refuses To Show The Note
01-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"You cite no legal authority that supports your claim that you are entitled to view the original Note, and we are not aware of the existence of any such authority. Bank of America
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Roman Empire's rise and fall 'recorded in trees'
01-18-2011
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Terrence Aym
The glory of the Roman Empire and its tragic demise was silently chronicledâ€"and recordedâ€"by trees. This surprising fact came to light after an extensive study of tree growth rings revealed a link between sudden climate shifts and the rise and fall of
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Terrence Aym
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