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Date Sent: 2011-08-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, August 6, 2011 |
S&P downgrades US credit rating for first time -- Police Convicted in Katrina Murders, Cover-Up
Fannie Mae seeks $5.1 bln more from US taxpayers --
COUNTDOWN TO HIROSHIMA: August 1, 1945 (X Minus 5 Days) -- TSA
Apologizes For Confiscating Pregnant Woman's Insulin, Ice Packs -- Gov. Christie slams fear mongering over Sharia law -- Censored color video from Hiroshima A-bomb aftermath -- Florida Teen Dies In Jail After Being Arrested For Marijuana -- NM Mayor: I Was Quite Drunk When I Signed Those $1 Million Contracts --
S & P Downgrades Debt of United States Government -- US Postal
Service warns it could default -- US AAA credit rating downgraded --
S&P Downgrades US To AA+, Outlook Negative -- Defcon/Black Hat
revealed: drones, Smart Meters, Shady Rat & hacking medical implants
-- Fictional Straw Family Debuts on YouTube Courtesy of Ontario Government --
Bread, Circuses, Spending Cuts, Unicorns And The Appearance Of Wealth
-- ISM and Recessions - Is the US Already In A Recession? -- Will QE3 = Federal Reserve Buying PIIGS Bonds? -- Paul Antinori – Constitutional Expert - Author of “A Modest Proposal
to Amend the Constitution” -- When everyone has a sacred cow, no one
has any meat - by Mencken's Ghost
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club
this morning with activist Jennifer Jones and Quartzsite's mayor Ed
Foster speaking; Another POOL PARTY AT THE HANCOCK'S today,
starting 2PM, 8/6/11; "Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical Thriller"
Phoenix Objectivist's discussion Aug. 11th; Oath Keepers To Muster
in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Convictions in Katrina Shootings, Cover-Up
08-05-2011
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AP
Five current or former police officers were convicted Friday of federal civil rights charges related to deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina:
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
S & P Downgrades Debt of United States Government
08-05-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Ramifications: Any pools of money that require money managers by bylaws or other agreements to hold only AAA debt may be forced to sell Treasury securities. It is unclear as to the size of such pools, since some may have clauses that...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time
08-05-2011
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washingtonpost.com
Standard & Poor’s announced Friday night that it has downgraded the sterling U.S. credit rating for the first time.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Fannie Mae seeks $5.1 bln more from US taxpayers
08-05-2011
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Reuters
Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans made prior to 2009.
The largest U.S. residential mortgage funds provider on Fri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bush 2.0: 100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush
08-05-2011
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The election of President Obama was in no small part, a referendum on the administration of George W. Bush, and his victory was interpreted as a sound rebuke to eight years of open ended warfare, a vast and growing police state, the destruction of ci
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
COUNTDOWN TO HIROSHIMA: August 1, 1945 (X Minus 5 Days)
08-05-2011
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The Nation
6 day blog on Hiroshima bombing which occurred today, Aug. 6th, 1945. Sixty-six years ago, at the end of July and early August, US policymakers and President Truman made fateful decisions that meant the use of two atomic bombs against Japanese citie
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Apologizes For Confiscating Pregnant Woman's Insulin, Ice Packs
08-05-2011
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ABC News (video)
The Transportation Security Administration is apologizing to a pregnant woman, one day after she said her insulin and ice packs were confiscated by screeners at Denver International Airport.
The Aurora woman was traveling alone to a baby shower in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Chris Christie slams fearmongering over Sharia law
08-05-2011
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The Ticket
New Jersey Republican Gov. Christie defended his decision to nominate a Muslim judge to the state Superior Court against conservative critics who warned that the new judge will implement Sharia law. Calling their fears "crap" and "crazy."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Censored color video from Hiroshima A-bomb aftermath
08-05-2011
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boing boing
The Nation's Greg Mitchell has a new book out about the strange saga of color video, shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear bomb attacks, which was suppressed for nearly 40 years. You can see a couple of clips from that video in the trailer
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Miami Beach Police Issue Policy On Dealing With Photographers And Videographers
08-05-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
On Memorial Day morning, seconds after they shot and killed Raymond Herisse in a hail of bullets, police pointed a gun at Narces Benoit and demanded his cell phone. Benoit claims they smashed it to the ground. Police insist they merely confiscated it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Florida Teen Dies In Jail After Being Arrested For Marijuana
08-05-2011
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Perez's withdrawal of her request likely means the public won't know any time soon exactly what exactly happened the morning of July 10 at the lockup. In the spring, state lawmakers revised Florida's public records law, forbidding the release of pict
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
NM Mayor: I Was Quite Drunk When I Signed Those $1 Million Contracts
08-05-2011
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TPM
Ever have one of those nights where you wake up with a hangover and $1 million worth of architecture contracts?
No? Martin Resendiz (D), the Mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, certainly has.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
This Alert is Several Days Old But, It Has Taken On A New Level of Gravitas
08-05-2011
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stevequayle.com/
We received an urgent notice that, effective immediately and until further notice, there is a freeze on all configuration changes, for all network devices across the globe, that have a role in the trading of US Treasury instruments, US debt...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Postal Service warns it could default
08-05-2011
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news.yahoo.com
The US Postal Service warned on Friday that it could default on payments it owes the federal government, just days after the US government itself narrowly averted a default.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
S&P Downgrades US To AA+, Outlook Negative
08-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
United States of America Long-Term Rating Lowered To 'AA+' On Political Risks And Rising Debt Burden; Outlook Negative
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
Smart Meter Slavery
7-05-11
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Morphcity.com
The Smart Grid is being used to promote green energy/clean energy/renewable energy. Because global warming (climate change) has been so thoroughly discredited, global warming policies and regulations are now being forced on us under the banner of gr
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Reported by:
Marti Oakley
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Defcon/Black Hat revealed: drones, Smart Meters, Shady Rat & hacking medical implants
08-05-2011
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CNET
CNET's Declan McCullagh & Eleanor Mills discuss breaking news filtering out from annual federal-private hacker conferences Defcon & Black Hat.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Conspiracies
Fictional Straw Family Debuts on YouTube Courtesy of Ontario Government
08-05-2011
Here, we have the YouTube debut of the strawgirl, who marries the strawman and together they give birth to strawbabies…it’s a whole fictional family! How charming!
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bread, Circuses, Spending Cuts, Unicorns And The Appearance Of Wealth
08-05-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions " everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses” - Juvenal " 100 A.D.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ISM and Recessions - Is the US Already In A Recession?
08-05-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Nearly every time Real GDP dips below 2%, the economy was either in recession or headed for recession.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Will QE3 = Federal Reserve Buying PIIGS Bonds?
08-05-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com & Twitter.com
Why doesn't Bernanke just go for it. QE3 = buy PIIGS bond.
Some stealth form of this will likley occur, probably using the IMF as a cover.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Incredible Space Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock [29 Pics]
08-05-2011
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triggerpit.com
On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Humor
Friday release: Hilarious courtroom exchanges!
08-05-2011
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The Political Commentator
Actual courtroom exchanges: You can't make this stuff up
Got this in an email today and it had me on the floor. The laughs were definitely needed as this has been a tough week all around! Enjoy!
IT CAN BE HARD KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE AS A COUR
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical Thriller"
08-05-2011
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first August meeting to be held on 11th, Phoenix Objectivists will start a new pre-recorded lecture series to study Ayn Rand's magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged".
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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Reference Link • Activism
Event: Selling Lemonade Is Not a Crime!
Lemonade Freedom
Please join us on August 20, 2011 and set up your own lemonade stand. We need to send a message to everyone who is listening. They can not shut down the kids lemonade stands. Please support a local kid's lemonade stand.
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