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Date Sent: 2011-08-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 10, 2011 AM edition |
Bernanke Calls Deflationary Depression -- Russ Certo: "The Fed Just Basically Announced Recession"
Family disputes immigration group's findings -- Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say -- Cop accused of rape gets prison for misconduct -- Australia’s aborigines forced off land by government -- US helicopter crashed in Taliban trap: Afghan official -- Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate -- If You Wanted To Inflame the Anger Over Overcompensated Public Employees . . . -- Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia -- Why Has BlackBerry Been Blamed for the London Riots? -- Pentagon’s Mach 20 Missile Ready for Ultimate Test -- This Morning's Solar Flare Was the Biggest Seen In Years -- Meredith Whitney Nailed It: July California Tax Revenues Plunge More Than 10% -- UBS' Andy Lees On Why The US Economy Is, All Else Equal, Doomed -- Chinese Censors Prohibit Printing of U.S. Pot Writer's Book -- McCain faces angry crowd at town hall, Tea Partiers upset over insult. -- Polygamist leader gets life in prison for assaults
AZ: Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Calls Deflationary Depression
08-09-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The bond market is telling you that there will be no material economic growth for the next two years and that a deflationary depression is the economic path that will be followed.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Russ Certo: "The Fed Just Basically Announced Recession"
08-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
I have never seen such bearish language used out of the Fed. Words or phrases like inflation “moderated”, indicators suggest “deterioration”, spending has “flattened out”, growth is “considerably” lower and “downside” risks...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Family disputes immigration group's findings
08-09-2011
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Federal immigration officials say an internal investigation of 12 incidents of alleged abuse and illegal conduct - including one in which a Cincinnati family claims its Fourth Amendment rights were violated - clears its agents of any wrongdoing.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say
08-09-2011
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NY Times
Many parents and grandparents in this mountainous region of terraced rice fields have long known to grab their babies and find the nearest hiding place whenever family planning officials show up. Too many infants have been snatched by officials, neve
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop accused of rape gets prison for misconduct
08-09-2011
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Rawstory
A former police officer, cleared of rape charges but convicted of official misconduct, was sentenced on Monday to one year in prison for repeatedly returning to the apartment of a drunken woman while on duty.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Australia’s aborigines forced off land by government
08-09-2011
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AFP
Australia's Aborigines are being forced off their traditional land because of government policy, despite the fact they would live longer if they stayed put, Amnesty International claimed Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
US helicopter crashed in Taliban trap: Afghan official
08-09-2011
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AFP
Taliban commander Qari Tahir lured U.S. forces to the scene by tipping them off that a Taliban meeting was taking place. "That's the only route, so they took position on the either side of the valley on mountains and as the helicopter approached, the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate
08-09-2011
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AP
The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said. More details on the waivers will come in September, he said.
The goal of the No Child L
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Severe Solar Storms Could Disrupt Earth This Decade: NOAA
08-09-2011
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NOAA, a federal agency that focuses on the condition of the oceans and atmosphere, said a severe solar storm could cause global disruptions in GPS systems, power grids, satellite communications, and airline communications.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
If You Wanted To Inflame the Anger Over Overcompensated Public Employees . . .
08-09-2011
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The Agitator
Santa Clara County’s housing authority could have spent $16 million of federal funds to help more struggling families put a roof over their heads. Instead, it chose to more than double the value of its employees’ retirement benefits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia
08-09-2011
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Washington Post
He is glad to be out of the firing line, at least for the moment, but is appalled that it took the beheading of a 54-year-old Indonesian grandmother to quiet abuse by supporters of Saudi-style Islam. The beheading of Ruyati binti Satubi " executed in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Why Has BlackBerry Been Blamed for the London Riots?
08-09-2011
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Olivia Solon via WIRED.com
The whole of London is taking stock after outbreaks of violence and looting across the capital. So what has the humble BlackBerry got anything to do with it?
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Reported by:
Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation
How an Electric Motorcycle Made Record Time
08-09-2011
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WIRED.com
San Francisco startup Mission Motors made a little history when factory rider Steve Rapp lapped Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 1 minute, 31.3 seconds. That number is amazing for several reasons.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
Pentagon’s Mach 20 Missile Ready for Ultimate Test
08-09-2011
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED.com
The Pentagon has been working for nearly a decade on an audacious plan to strike anywhere on the planet in less than an hour. Wednesday could prove to be the do-or-die moment for that plan.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
The Craziest Combat Outfits
08-09-2011
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Lena Groeger via WIRED.com
They might be sophisticated, bizarre or comical, technology-heavy or explosive-proof. All sorts of suits outfit men and women who work hard everyday. Here we showcase a few of the cool, functional or just plain insane fashions fit for the fight.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Double-Amputee Sprinter Oscar Pistorius Will Be First Amputee to Compete in the World Championships
08-09-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Oscar Pistorius of South Africa just qualified for the 400-meter and the 4x400-meter relay races at this year's World Championships, his first trip there
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Transportation
Driverless Pod Cars Transport Passengers Around London's Heathrow Airport
08-09-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Driverless cars are just catching on in this country, but they’re already zooming around London’s main airport, ferrying passengers from their people-driven cars to the terminal.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Latest Phantom Camera Shoots Hi-Def Video More Than Twice As Slow As Before
08-09-2011
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Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.com
Vision Research, makers of the Phantom line of cameras that we love so thoroughly, just announced two new additions to the Phantom family, the v1210 and the laughably powerful v1610.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA Selects Visionary Advanced Technology Concepts For Study
08-09-2011
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David E. Steitz via NASA.com
The advanced concepts selected for study under NIAC were chosen based on their potential to transform our future space missions, enable new capabilities or significantly alter current approaches to launching, building and operating space systems.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Solar Flares
This Morning's Solar Flare Was the Biggest Seen In Years
08-09-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
It’s been a busy few days on the surface of the sun. A handful of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) last week sparked concerns of power grid and communications disruptions.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney Nailed It: July California Tax Revenues Plunge More Than 10%
08-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
And unless the Fed can continue to baffle them with bullshit, by declaring that the recession is here, but it is really good for your 401(k), California's troubles are only set to escalate.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Dylan Ratigan's Mad As Hell Moment
08-09-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/ & Youtube.com
Dylan Ratigan goes on a rant like none I have seen on TV in 7 decades of viewing. He used a phrase that should be on the lips of all Americans, "Trillions of dollars are being extracted form the United States of America...
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Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
OCTOLOGUE is Voluntaryism on STEROIDS
Thomas Costanzo
From a Titanian perspective, the essential building-blocks of a plausible thriving ethical society are the Octologue and the Holotropic Matrix (HoloMat). The Octologue and HoloMat are organizational models that convey a number of extraordinary benef
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
UBS' Andy Lees On Why The US Economy Is, All Else Equal, Doomed
08-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
So we are left with a massive amount of debt, a massive amount of capital and labour that is unprofitable in the world we face, and a balance sheet of insufficient resources to keep the illusion alive.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Chinese Censors Prohibit Printing of U.S. Pot Writer's Book
08-09-2011
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The Atlantic
The Seattle Weekly employs a columnist who reviews marijuana dispensaries. That's the first surprising thing in this strange tale of Chinese censorship. That columnist, Steve Elliott, has a book coming out called The Little Black Book of Marijuana,
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Steve Elliott
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News Link • NeoCons
McCain faces angry crowd at town hall, Tea Partiers upset over insult.
08-09-2011
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www.eastvalleytribune.com
"What apology is in order?" McCain asked. "It's not my fault that it was misunderstood."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Surveillance
Truth Squad Radio: Smart Meters/ Electronic Incarceration
08-09-2011
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Farm Wars
Smart Meters " You Can Stop the Invasion! Smart Meters are a surveillance device and are a danger to your health. Radio frequency meters can be used to create confusion and lethargy.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Polygamist leader gets life in prison for assaults
08-09-2011
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AP
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides in what his church deemed "spiritual marriages."
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of La
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Powell Gammill
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
LIVE From Quartzsite, AZ - Noon to 2pm
Tyson's R.V. Park "Community Room" - 350 W Main Quartzsite, AZ - Noon to 2pm Both Monday and Tuesday - Public invited to attend and peacefully participate.
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