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Date Sent: 2011-08-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 26, 2011 PM edition |
Media Blackout: US in Yet Another Illegal War ... in Yemen -- NYPD confirms CIA presence
Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of Diamond -- Glenn Greenwald: Obama upheld ‘evisceration of the rule of law for political elites’ -- PBS documentary sheds light on marijuana’s cancer-killing properties -- 'Klaatu Barada Nikto!' - by Butler Shaffer -- 'Anonymous publishes nude photos of BART spokesman -- Foreclosure-Gate: State Officials Starting to Question Securitization Fail -- Biden: more U$ $timulus needed, business mad at S&P -- Years Of Obama's
Job Promises, Promises -- 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The
Middle Class In America Is Rapidly Shrinking -- Syrian gunmen break
artist's hands as 'warning' -- Massachusetts State Police Shutdown Twelve-Year-Old’s Green Tea Stand -- Dylan Reeves - TORT LIABILITY FOR MANUFACTURERS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES -- Foreclosure-Gate: How Chase Ruined People Who Paid Off Their Mortgages -- Ben Bernanke: No economy fixes from Federal Reserve for now -- Federal Government Raids Gibson Guitars Under India Law -- New Drug Can Cure Any Virus Infection
AZ: Freedom Musician JORDAN PAGE at Hancock's tonight 6 p.m. Potluck; Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on Saturday, August 27th, bring
your cameras; RON PAUL 2012, Street Demonstration, Street Signing Phoenix Sunday, Aug. 28th @ 2PM
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Media Blackout: US in Yet Another Illegal War ... in Yemen
08-26-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Militants in Yemen ... Officials in Yemen say an airstrike has killed eight militants in the country's south.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
NYPD confirms CIA officer works at department
08-26-2011
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www.breitbart.com
New York's police commissioner confirmed Thursday that a CIA officer is working out of police headquarters there, after an Associated Press investigation revealed an unusual partnership with the CIA that has blurred the line between foreign and domes
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Housing
The Housing Market is Shrinking
08-26-2011
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CNBC.com
The granular, organic, whatever you want to call it…non-distressed market is withering away. Sellers are afraid to put their homes on the market for fear of losing too much equity, which means there are fewer potential move-up buyers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of Diamond
08-26-2011
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www.wired.com
An international team of astronomers, led by Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology professor Matthew Bailes, has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals, in our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Glenn Greenwald: Obama upheld ‘evisceration of the rule of law for political elites’
08-26-2011
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Rawstory (video)
Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald blasted President Obama’s mantra that the nation should “look forward, not backward” regarding alleged crimes committed by the Bush administration. “Imagine if, for example, we decided to announce tomorrow that we
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
PBS documentary sheds light on marijuana’s cancer-killing properties
08-26-2011
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www.rawstory.com
The cancer-killing properties of marijuana were the subject of discussion in a PBS documentary that aired this week to little media fanfare.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
'Klaatu Barada Nikto!' - by Butler Shaffer
08-26-2011
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Butler Shaffer via lewrockwell.com
If you want to protect your life " and those of your children and grandchildren " you’d better memorize this phrase. It may save you from a threat apparently being voiced at NASA: an attack from another planet somewhere in the vastness of our univers
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Anonymous claims to publish nude photos of BART spokesman
08-26-2011
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Rawstory
"I condemn anyone who attacks an individual and invades their privacy," a BART spokeswoman told Huffington Post. "This is not only unethical, but illegal. And that is all I have to say about that."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: State Officials Starting to Question Securitization Fail
08-26-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
I’ve been wondering when cash strapped states might look to the apparent failure of mortgage securitizations to adhere to REMIC rules as a possible trigger for tax assessments.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Media Blackout: US in Yet Another Illegal War ... in Yemen
08-26-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Militants in Yemen ... Officials in Yemen say an airstrike has killed eight militants in the country's south.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Biden: more U$ $timulus needed, business mad at S&P
08-26-2011
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Reuters
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. economy needed more stimulus to get it moving, putting in a plug for government measures shortly before the White House unveils new proposals to boost job growth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear
08-26-2011
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online.wsj.com
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Death
Therapy Horse Dies After Oakdale Theft
08-26-2011
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sacramento.cbslocal.com
A therapy horse was killed after metal thieves tore down a pasture fence, allowing some of the animals to wander near a busy highway, authorities said.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
We Love Freedom! Wait, What's Freedom?
08-26-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The US Government's agenda to lobotomize the majority of Americans has been an unequivocal success.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Middle Class In America Is Rapidly Shrinking
08-26-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million people to the population since then.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Barry Ritholtz: The Heart of the Matter
08-26-2011
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Ritholtz.com
Without taking some solid, clearly-defined steps, the middle class will undoubtedly move from an endangered species to extinction. The tipping point may already have been passed and, even if it hasn’t, I’m still not optimistic there’s any...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Syrian gunmen break artist's hands as 'warning'
08-26-2011
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AP
A renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians' frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus.
One of Syr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Massachusetts State Police Shutdown Twelve-Year-Old’s Green Tea Stand
08-26-2011
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Forbes
Well it’s not exactly lemonade but it’ll do. Christopher Carr’s twelve-year-old stepson had set up a smoothie and green-tea stand near their house when they moved back to the States after the earthquake in Japan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Sex, Lies and Banking Stocks
08-26-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
Now, let's get this straight. Is banning short selling equivalent to telling outright lies? No it's not. But it IS equivalent to not telling the truth. And that is, whatever you may think about this, a strange thing to be confirmed in official policy
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: How Chase Ruined People Who Paid Off Their Mortgages
08-26-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
[S]tealing is pretty much the worst thing that a bank can do " and these banks just finished the longest and most orgiastic campaign of stealing in the history of money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Karl Denninger: Another 20 Point Overnight Range
08-26-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This time, there will be no bailouts because there can't be. There's no money. Good luck with your belief in the candy-crapping Unicorn America. He's not going to appear.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Real People Say "Screw You" To The Markets
08-26-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Let the thieves and liars continue to pollute the markets and screw everyone. Volatility is as high as it is precisely because people are tired of getting buttraped and after a few instances of it they simply say "screw this", take their money...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Inside the News: Greek debt, Bernanke speech cap sentiment
08-26-2011
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www.youtube.com
Aug. 26 - Caution prevails ahead of the closely watched speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday, while European sentiment is sapped by a mounting confusion over Greece's bailout.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke: No economy fixes from Federal Reserve for now
08-26-2011
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www.politico.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday announced that the Fed wouldn’t take any steps at this time to provide a boost but indicated they may be considered next month.
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News Link • Police State
Federal Government Raids Gibson Guitars Under Indian Law While Continually Ignoring Internal Corrupt
8/26/2011
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The Intel Hub
The Department Of Justice raided two Gibson Guitars manufacturing plants in the United States on Wednesday.
The raids were apparently justified not under United States law but under the corrupt Justice Departments interpretations of the law in Ind
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Science
Animal's Genetic Code Redesigned
08-26-2011
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arclein
What makes the newly created animals different is that their genetic code has been extended to create biological molecules not known in the natural world.
Genes are the DNA blueprints that enable living organisms to construct their biological mach
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Drug Can Cure Any Virus Infection
08-26-2011
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arclein
Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection. In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoS One, the researchers tested their drug against 15
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Hidden Soil Fungus Revealed
08-26-2011
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arclein
fungi that colonize plant roots - when they discovered that some root tips harbored not only the mycorrhizae they were interested in, but also an unfamiliar fungus.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic Passages Open for Business
08-26-2011
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arclein
But the Northern Sea Route has been free enough of ice this month for a succession of tankers carrying natural gas condensate from the northern port of Murmansk to sail along the Siberian coast en route for Thailand.
"They're often open at the s
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robert klein
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight
08-25-2011
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NY Times
The agent argues in the book the CIA missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the FBI information about 2 future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, and gives a detailed, firsthand account of the CIA's brutal treatment in its inter
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