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Date Sent: 2010-10-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 25, 2010 AM edition |
Goldman: Fed Needs To Print $4 Trillion New Money -- Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad
Companies that received bailout money giving generously to candidates
-- U.N. official calls for study of ethics, legality of unmanned
weapons -- Iran Is Said to Give Top Karzai Aide Cash by the Bagful -- The Naked Body Scanner May Not Even Catch an Underwear Bomber -- UN calls for probe into US inaction on torture -- Court OKs booting of cheerleader who wouldn’t cheer for her rapist -- Hellish horrors that can melt your flesh: Japanese Giant Hornets -- Conn.: Voters should ditch WWE garb at the polls -- Barney Frank rakes in $40G from bailed out banks -- Houston
woman's Obama T-shirt serves as voting 'dress code' reminder --
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government
is 'on the table' -- DHS Conducts Nationwide ID Authentication Test For Emergencies -- Foreclosure-Gate: Citigroup Knew Exactly What Crap It Was Selling -- Drug shortage throws US executions into disarray -- You ain't rich enough for the “death Tax”, Mabel
AZ: Tea Party events for activists
this week; Objectivity in the Media with libertarian talk show host Jim Sharpe speaking; Karl
Rove, "War Criminal," In Phoenix 11/09/2010; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul November 19-20.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Goldman: The Fed Needs To Print $4 Trillion In New Money
10-24-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The Fed will not stop until it prints nearly ten trillion in incremental money beginning on November 3. That's almost more than M1 and M2 combined. (You do realize that Obama will be out of the country when this hits.)
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad: report
10-24-2010
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Rawstory
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been running a "detention squad" that exists outside the military command structure and may be cracking down on Sunni Muslims who oppose the Shia Muslim leader, according to an analysis of documents in the Wik
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Companies that received bailout money giving generously to candidates
10-24-2010
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Washington Post
The political action committee formed by the company, which is now largely owned by taxpayers, cut McConnell a $5,000 campaign check in September, a small piece of the $190,000 it donated to campaigns in the past month.
Although GM suspended its c
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.N. official calls for study of ethics, legality of unmanned weapons
10-24-2010
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Washington Post
A United Nations investigator called on the world body Friday to set up a panel to study the ethics and legality of unmanned military weapons - an apparent reference to U.S. drones that have targeted suspected Islamist militants. Killings ordered far
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran Is Said to Give Top Karzai Aide Cash by the Bagful
10-24-2010
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NY Times
“This is the Iranian money,” said an Afghan official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Many of us noticed this.”
The bag of money is part of a secret, steady stream of Iranian cash intended to buy the loyalty of Mr. Daudzai and promote Iran’s
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
The Naked Body Scanner May Not Even Catch an Underwear Bomber
10-24-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In the L.A. Magazine interview, he casually mentions that it is not clear that Abdulmutallab would have been detected, by the Naked Body Scanner, when he was carrying the explosives in his underwear.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
UN calls for probe into US inaction on torture
10-24-2010
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Rawstory
The documents chronicle numerous allegations of torture by Iraqi forces against their own citizens, as well as what appears to have been a standing order in the US military to ignore the allegations -- potentially a violation of international convent
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Netflix Eats Up 20 Percent Of U.S. Downstream Bandwidth
10-24-2010
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PC Magazine
Amidst news of a Netflix site outage this afternoon, a new report says Netflix accounts for more than 20 percent of all downstream Internet traffic during peak times in the U.S.
U.S. Netflix streaming traffic is heaviest between 8-10pm.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Court OKs booting of cheerleader who wouldn’t cheer for her rapist
10-24-2010
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Rawstory
A former cheerleader did not have the right to refuse to cheer for a man that she claims sexually assaulted her, an appeals court has ruled. The girl, identified only as H.S. in court documents, claimed that, when she was 16, she was sexually assault
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Heroes
Middle-class? Entrepreneurs? Long Gone!
10-24-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Like swans of legend, our once esteemed American entrepreneurs sing their final, beautiful Swan Song before they just fade away, thus tearing open the heart of our country.
Our unsung entrepreneurial heroes of America are no longer part of the nat
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Reported by:
Marti Oakley
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News Link • Boondoggle and white elephants
How Collectivists Create their Own Opposition " and how NOT to be fooled by it
10-24-2010
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Farm Wars
One of the most common deceptions in our time is the offering of false leadership; in other words, leading one’s own opposition.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science
Hellish horrors that can melt your flesh: Japanese Giant Hornets
10-24-2010
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Terrence Aym
Imagine for a moment a bug bigger than your thumb that's built like a tank and can fly like a fighter jet. Imagine that this bug is relentless killer, single-minded in destroying whatever enemy might threaten it--including you, if it perceives you a
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Reported by:
Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
Murphy-Krugman Debate
10-24-2010
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The Point
See Paul Krugman debate Robert Murphy on Keynesian vs Austrian Business Cycle Theory! Moderated by Ezra Klein, or another moderator of mutual chossing. All proceeds (less The Point's 5% fee) will be donated to the Fresh Food Program
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Propaganda
Are Jews and Masons and Jesuits Conspiring to Control the World?
10-24-2010
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Farm Wars
"People who accept the authenticity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not likely to be paying much attention to what is happening in the Rhodesian and Leninist camps " and that’s where the action really is."
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Tap-Tap-Tap Dance Around The Issue....
10-24-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
Lenders knew by 2006 they were in the majority making loans to people who couldn't pay and continued to issue those loans - which means they were making loans for the purpose of inducing people not to borrow and pay but to borrow and default...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Conn.: Voters should ditch WWE garb at the polls
10-24-2010
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AP
Local election officials in Connecticut are being told they can ask people wearing World Wrestling Entertainment garb to cover it up while voting because it could be considered political advertising for Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon, the
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Independent and Other Campaigns
The Rent is Too Damn High
Oct. 22, 2010
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Time.com
Jimmy McMillan, a Brooklynite, is running for governor under the banner of the Rent Is Too Damn High party. He stole the show during a gubernatorial debate Monday night, spouting with unmatched passion his catchphrases about, well, how the rent is to
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Reported by:
Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Barney Frank rakes in $40G from bailed out banks
10-24-2010
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AP
Barney Frank, in an intensifying clash with GOP upstart Sean Bielat, pledged not to take campaign cash from lenders that got federal bailouts " yet has raked in $40,000 from bank execs and special interests connected to the staggering government loan
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Houston woman's Obama T-shirt serves as voting 'dress code' reminder
10-24-2010
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KHOU TV
The problem is that Francis was wearing a 2008 Obama election shirt. It has photos of the first family during the campaign accompanied by the phrase “Our President Obama.” The presiding elections judge told her she could not vote, nor could she help
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Marathon man: How not to hit the wall
10-24-2010
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Reuters
Marathon runners can train for months to condition for the big race, yet struggle to finish if they exhaust stores of carbohydrates too quickly, a phenomenon known as "hitting the wall." A new formula gives runners a way to calculate just how many ca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekend Edition of LewRockwell.com - October 24th 2010
10-24-2010
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LewRockwell.com
Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic - Not Only Does the State Bring Out the Worst in Human Beings It cultivates and promotes it, says Karen Kwiatkowski - The Tea Parties Are Worse Than Useless Karl Denninger on how Republicans made the TPs part of
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government is 'on the table'
10-24-2010
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Dallas Morning News
GOP candidate Broden stunned his party, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership. Drew a quick denunciation from the head of the Dallas County GOP, who called the remarks "in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
“On the Edge with Max Keiser” Guest: Rick Ackerman
10-24-2010
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MaxKeiser.com & YouTube.com
Rick Ackerman gives a very good account of what will happen to prices when Quantitative Easing version 2.0 hits the street in 10 days, potatoes, not houses will skyrocket in price. The word sudden was mentioned more than once.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Conducts Nationwide ID Authentication Test For Emergencies
10-24-2010
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TerraDaily.com
Northrop Grumman and FEMA recently coordinated a nationwide demonstration showing the ability to deploy a common, interoperable credentialing system that enables electronic ID authentication for government and industry personnel.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Citigroup Knew Exactly What Crap It Was Selling
10-24-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
"We continued to purchase and sell to investors even larger volumes of mortgages through 2007. And defective mortgages increased during 2007 to over 80% of production."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Death Penalty
Drug shortage throws US executions into disarray
10-24-2010
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AP
At a recent hearing, an Arizona judge sounded puzzled about the need for FDA approval for the drug.
"What difference does that make?" judge Andrew Hurwitz asked.
"It strikes me as strange that the FDA law was meant to regulate executions... The
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
You ain’t rich enough for the “death Tax”, Mabel
10-24-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Unless that farmer has a net worth…all his income plus real property value, minus all his debt that results in a net worth of 3.45 million or more, there is not a rat’s chance in hell they will be subject to any “death tax”. Simple estate planning ca
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Religion: Believers
CHRISTIANS, TAKE BACK HALLOWEEN!
10-24-10
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www.varight.com
Followers of Christ are rightly distressed about Halloween. There is an alternative: Reformation Day. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther placed the 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, Germany and unwittingly started the Reformation. This
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Humor
The Weather is a Dick...
10-24-2010
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DeathByaThousandPapercuts
It seems that Mexico is getting the brunt of the storm... Comment hilarity to ensue...
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Iraq war logs: military privatisation run amok
10-23-2010
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Pratap Chatterjee
The Wikileaks Iraq war logs bring to light previously unknown incidents involving military contractors like Blackwater, acting with legal immunity, which resulted in deaths of civilians during the occupation of Iraq
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Leon Felkins
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