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Date Sent: 2010-10-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 18, 2010 AM edition |
Foreclosure-Gate: Propaganda, Criminality, & Thuggery -- WikiLeaks accuses US of financial warfare
G20 protester barred from speaking to press as condition of bail -- Mississippi injustice for two sisters -- Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws --
Texas Officials Continue Coverup of Wrongful Execution; Fight To
Proceed With Another -- In the U.S., No True Fiscal Conservatives -- Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract -- For cops, citizen videos bring increased scrutiny -- Obama backs boosting revenue for Social Security -- French minister: Saudis warn of new terror threat -- Paul Craig Roberts Interview: Decline of The American Empire -- Hillary Clinton Wants To Escalate The Mexican Border "Drug War"
-- Devious Reason Why Banks May Be Releasing A Wave Of Mortgage Mods --
M2: 14th Weekly Increase as Main Street Accelerates Cash Withdrawals
From Banks -- At the Root of it all is the Money--and the Money
Changers. Not a Religious thing--a Reality thing. -- "Beggar Thyself" Last Resort Of A Dying Economic System -- Mish Wants You to Read This Book!
AZ: MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010; Tom Woods Speaking in Phoenix, October 20; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate Counterattack " Propaganda, Criminality, and Thuggery
10-17-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
So long as government at every level is the waterboy of the banks while people on the ground remain unorganized, atomized, and vulnerable, this will only get worse. We hear rhetoric, “joking” of course, about how they need to start burning houses...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
WikiLeaks accuses US of ‘financial warfare’
10-17-2010
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Rawstory
The founder of whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks says the US government is involved in a campaign of "financial warfare" against the group. The company explains it has "terminated the business relationship" with WikiLeaks because it has been added to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
G20 protester barred from speaking to press as condition of bail
10-17-2010
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Rawstory
A man accused of having incited violent protests at the G20 economic summit in Toronto has been subjected to "staggering" bail conditions. He forbidden to attend any public event that expresses political views and he is not allowed to speak to the pr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mississippi injustice for two sisters
10-17-2010
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NY Times
It was not the kind of crime to cause a stir. No one was hurt and $11 was taken. Jamie was 21 at the time and Gladys 19. What happened to them takes your breath away. They were convicted and handed the most draconian sentences imaginable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws
10-17-2010
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Newser
Laws against drunken driving are admirable in intent, but a case can be made (with stats to back it up) that they actually make our roads less safe. Police, meanwhile, waste manpower at DWI checkpoints (civil liberties violations are a whole other ca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Texas Officials Continue Coverup of Wrongful Execution; Fight To Proceed With Another
10-17-2010
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The Agitator
A Texas appeals court has ordered a halt to a district court’s inquiry into whether Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for setting a 1992 fire that killed his three daughters, was innocent. The stay was sought by Navarro County District Attorn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In the U.S., No True Fiscal Conservatives
10-17-2010
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NY Times
The US stands out as quite different. No one is yet seriously proposing to address our underlying budget problems. Certainly, some people consider themselves fiscal conservatives, but none can yet be taken seriously. The implications are dire.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract
10-17-2010
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Rawstory
A psychologist whose research was used in constructing the US's program to torture terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid Army contract to provide "resilience training" to US soldiers. Martin Seligman's research "formed the psycholo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
For cops, citizen videos bring increased scrutiny
10-17-2010
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USA Today
Diop Kamau's home in a leafy, gated community just north of town is not easy to find " for good reason. For more than 2 decades, the 52-year-old former Calif. police officer has made a living embarrassing cops with a video camera.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
Obama backs boosting revenue for Social Security
10-17-2010
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Reuters
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he favored raising more revenue for Social Security to prolong the solvency of the U.S. retirement fund, rather than just cutting benefits or making people work longer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Taiwan to allow small brothels in law change
10-17-2010
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Reuters
Taiwan's government plans to allow sex workers to set up small businesses in the latest change to laws that had once forced the huge industry underground. The ministry said it would consider brothels of 3 to 5 staff away from areas frequented by chil
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
French minister: Saudis warn of new terror threat
10-17-2010
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AP
Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaida against Europe, particularly in France. He said the warning of a potential attack by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was received "in the last few hours, few days."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
95-year-old NYC man gets medal for WWII rescue
10-17-2010
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AP
The U.S. government has recognized the World War II architect of a mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia.
It was the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Hillary Clinton Wants To Escalate The Mexican Border "Drug War"
10-17-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
"These drug cartels are now taking on a lot of the attributes of these terrorists and insurgent groups we see around the world," Clinton said Friday. "For the first time, they are using car bombings.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Giordano Bruno: High Noon In America
10-17-2010
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neithercorp.us/npress
Like the character of Will Kane, Liberty Movement proponents also listen to their inner voice. They understand that there are greater concerns at stake than their own safety. That there are ideals under threat of extinction.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Devious Reason Why Banks May Be Releasing A Wave Of Mortgage Mods
10-17-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
But what if the lenders motivation for doing a Mod was not to get a borrower to a loan balance and monthly nut that they could pay, but rather the motivation was to circumvent the foreclosure trap the lenders are in?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
M2: 14th Weekly Increase as Main Street Accelerates Cash Withdrawals From Banks
10-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears either the less than richest Americans need to constantly pull money out of the bank, as they give up yield (and in a Zero Interest Rate environment there is no yield to be given up) in order to pay their bills...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
"Beggar Thyself" Last Resort Of A Dying Economic System
10-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It is Ben's “helicopter money” scenario writ large. The US central bank proposes to use the Federal Reserve notes it creates out of thin air to “buy” the debt of the US government which the Treasury creates out of thin air. This is the last gasp...
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Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Gold and Silver
Mish Wants You to Read This Book!
Charles Goyette
Michael Shedlock) Mish from the world's most popular financial blog - MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis - wants to make sure you are prepared! If you have not read THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN, do so at once!
And make sure the people you care about -
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security outrage: Proof senior citizens being cheated by government
10-17-2010
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Terrence Aym
According to the SSA's own statistics, roughly 58 million Americans are receiving Social Security checks. For the second time in two years they've been informed that no cost of living increase will be granted because according to the numbers being
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • TERRORISM
The War On Terror
10-17-2010
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AntiWar.com / Paul Craig Roberts
The "war on terror" is now in its tenth year. What is it really all about?
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • TAXES: State
$400 Turnpike Toll on Soldier's Funeral
10-17-2010
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KRMG
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority chairman decided to pay the toll for a soldier's funeral procession out of his own pocket after pressure from the Patriot Guard.
Private First Class Cody Board died when a roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan.
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010
10-15-2010
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lclreport.podomatic.com
Tarrin Lupo will be in Phoenix, AZ at the Freedoms Phoenix Workshop. He will be hanging out there and doing some interviews. Come on down!!!!
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