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Date Sent: 2010-08-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 10, 2010 |
Fed decides to do nothing, Wall Street parties
JetBlue’s ‘freakin’ flier’ becomes overnight ‘folk hero’ -- Bridge to
Nowhere Pork King Sen. Stevens killed in air crash -- Giordano Bruno:
U.S. Dollar Now Ripe For Catastrophic Devaluation -- Gonzalo Lira:
Quantitative Easing 2 Will Sink Us -- The Military’s Media Whores --
The Newsweek Owner's
Intelligence Connection -- Marc Thiessen on Waterboarding -- Arsenal of
antibiotics not being restocked -- Liberal Critics Say Obama is Like
Bush: White House Says Drug Test Them
AZ: Thursday Breakfast, Libertarian Candidate Andrea Garcia: "Why Russell Pearce & the SB1070 crowd must be Stopped!!!!'
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed indecides to do nothing, wall street parties
08-10-2010
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AP
At the end of its meeting Tuesday, the Fed said it will use money from its investments in mortgage securities to buy government debt on a small scale. That could help nudge down long term rates on mortgages and corporate debt but wouldn't have a dram
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Solar Tsunami Revealed in New Photo
08-10-2010
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SPACE.com Staff
A vivid new photo of the sun has revealed a new view of a solar eruption in the star's northern hemisphere that blasted charged particles in Earth's direction this week, according to NASA officials.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Inventions
Testing The Goods: The Bobble Self-Filtering Water Bottle
08-10-2010
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Jacob Ward via PopSci
The pitch: fill up from any tap, and the bottle's filter removes all the nasties for clean, pure refreshment
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
The Army Wants a Genetic Vaccinator that Blasts Doses of DNA Right Through the Patient's Skin
08-10-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci
Replacing the Needle for Innoculations in the Field In an effort to increase its ability to respond to biological attacks in the field, the Army wants a DNA vaccination device that blasts gene-filled gas right through the skin then delivers electric
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
JetBlue’s ‘freakin’ flier’ becomes overnight ‘folk hero’
08-10-2010
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Rawstory
A flight attendant furious with passengers who refused to follow his instructions told them off over the loudspeaker before pulling the chute to make his own dramatic personal emergency exit, police said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Bridge to Nowhere Pork King Sen. Stevens killed in air crash
08-10-2010
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AP
Dave Dittman, a former aide and longtime family friend of former Sen. Ted Stevens, says Stevens was killed in a plane crash near Dillingham Monday night. Dittman says he received a call overnight Monday that said the former senator was dead. Nine peo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Giordano Bruno: U.S. Dollar Now Ripe For Catastrophic Devaluation
08-10-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Strangely though, some mainstream economists and analysts still contend that America will never face consequences for its fiscal debauchery. Why do they believe this despite all the evidence to the contrary? Because of a magical machine called a...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
The Government is Dealing with the Oil Spill Like the Soviets Dealt with Chernobyl
08-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Florida State University oceanographer Ian McDonald points out that the government scientists claiming almost all of the oil is gone are the same folks who said that only 5,000 barrels of oil were leaking a day, and who denied that there were...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gonzalo Lira: Quantitative Easing 2 Will Sink Us
08-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
People will lose faith in the dollar, and try to get out of it"at all costs, all at once. Hyperinflation is not the economy overheating, like regular inflation"hyperinflation is when nobody wants to be caught dead with a currency.
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Jack Gregson
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![The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility [Lara Logan]](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/046/08/046-0810083810.jpg)
News Link • Revolving Door
The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility [Lara Logan]
07-01-2010
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Maximilian Forte
Logan is now married to Joseph Burkett, described variously as “defense contractor” and “war contractor in Iraq.” No red flags there? Let’s get real. In fact, Logan produced a piece for 60 Minutes last year that served as a shill for Air Force drones
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Revolving Door
The Media and the Regime: Joined at the Hip
08-07-2010
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S.M. Oliva
Jon Leibowitz (now Chairman of the FTC) and Ruth Marcus (Editor Washington Post) married in 1994. They were the perfect Washington power couple: He was chief counsel to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and she was a White House correspondent for the Washingt
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Newsweek Owner's Intelligence Connection
08-10-2010
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Tim Shorrock
It’s well-known that Sidney Harman, the electronics mogul who just bought Newsweek, is married to Rep. Jane Harman, one of Washington’s heavyweights on intelligence.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Agriculture
Notes From the Bee Keeping Front
08-10-2010
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arclein
But the question remains: how much does it take to feed a honey bee colony? It's not like I can go to the store and simply get a bag of Purina Honey Bee Chow... although beekeepers do feed their bees protein supplements on occasion. But even the bes
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News Link • Climate Change
Flower Power Made Our Climate Grow
08-10-2010
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arclein
This higher vein density in the leaves means that flowering plants are highly efficient at transpiring water from the soil back into the sky, where it can return to Earth as rain.
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Nightmare Charts The Fed Is Looking At Right Now
08-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This chart pack is likely to be fresh in the minds of every FOMC member as they consider their votes and views today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
November 2009 YOY Peak in Oil Prices Indicates Recession by Late 2010
08-10-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
“The magic 100% level in the YoY change in oil gives us a 100% chance of a recession in the succeeding twelve months. This indicator suggests that ISM will fall to 40, or even 35, in the coming months before recovering…”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Marc Thiessen on Waterboarding
08-10-2010
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arclein
"There have been so many misstatements made about the enhanced interrogation techniques, comparing them to the Spanish Inquisition and the Khmer Rouge, and I have to tell you Christiane you are one of the people who have spread these mistruths." Am
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
NFIB Small Business Survey Declines: "No Hope in Obama's Economic Policies"
08-10-2010
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ZeroHedge.com & CalculatedRiskblog.com
The persistence of Index readings below 90 is unprecedented in survey history. Owners have no confidence that economic policies will “fix” the economy... Bottom line, owners remain pessimistic and nothing is happening in Washington...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Arsenal of antibiotics not being restocked - Drug companies are abandoning the antibacterial busine
08/10/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Drug companies are abandoning the antibacterial business, citing high development costs, low return on investment and, increasingly, a nearly decade-long stalemate with the Food and Drug Administration over how to bring new antibiotics to market.
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electric Car Revolution Has Begun
08-10-2010
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arclein
But only now are we starting to see the major automakers putting aside their prejudices (which nearly put some of them out of business), and moving forward with their first generations of highway-capable electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran Calls for Formation of Islamic Union to Start New World Order
08/10/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi hoped for the formation of an Islamic Union in a move to start and establish a new economic order in the world.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran plans to establish a new economic order in the world i
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iran Digging Mass Graves For U.S. Troops If They Attack
08/10/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a former commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said.
The digging of the graves appears to be a show of bravado after the chairman of the U.S.
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Obama Administration
Liberal Critics Say Obama is Like Bush: White House Says Drug Test Them
08-10-2010
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RawStory.com
"I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it’s crazy."
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Jack Gregson
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