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Date Sent: 2010-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 17, 2010 PM edition |
Torture tapes found under CIA desk -- US Home Mortgage Arrears Mount
Champion teen kickboxer seeks world title (son of FreedomsPhoenix reporter) -- DHS Memo: "Administrative Alternative to Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
-- Kyle Bass on CNBC: "I Don't Know How You Can Be Long Stocks" --
Former TSA supervisor admits stealing luggage -- Flipping, flopping and
booming mortgage fraud -- Obama wants new model for Fannie, Freddie -- Aging inmates straining prison systems -- The Best Gold Interview of 2010 -- The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse -- Bill Gross Urges Full Nationalization Of GSEs, Fannie and Freddie -- #1: Drug Our Drinking Water
-- Consumer Metrics Institute: Why The Recovery Is Collapsing -- New
Right-Wing Meme: Education Spending = 'Money-Laundering' For Dems -- China's $1.1 Trillion in Hidden Income -- Paul Craig Roberts: Without a Revolution, Americans are History -- Government’s Growing Obsession with Fusion-Style Command Centers -- Rand Paul: Keep EPA out of Kentucky affairs -- Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Torture tapes found under CIA desk
08-17-2010
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AP
The CIA has tapes of 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh being interrogated in a secret overseas prison. Discovered under a desk, the recordings could provide an unparalleled look at how foreign governments aided the U.S. in holding and questioning suspect
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
US Home Mortgage Arrears Mount
08-17-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Mortgage delinquencies have risen in nearly all US congressional districts from the levels of the last election, highlighting the political pressure on US policymakers as they gather in Washington on Tuesday to tackle the housing crisis...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Champion teen kickboxer seeks world title (son of FreedomsPhoenix reporter)
08-17-2010
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azcentral.com
His performance at the North American championships earned Decker a spot on the U.S. team for the world championships taking place in Scotland in October. Decker, who just started his senior year at Mesa's Dobson High School, is trying to raise $4,00
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
DHS Memo: "Administrative Alternative to Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
08-17-2010
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e-mail from Minuteman PAC
Undated and incomplete."Target Date: All USCIS policies reviewed and enhanced by June 2012". It reads like a 'done deal' already...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kyle Bass on CNBC: "I Don't Know How You Can Be Long Stocks"
08-17-2010
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BusinessInsider.com & CNBC.com
#1 His basic gist on stocks: Given my outlook on the world, I don't know how you can be long stocks. #2 Japan is toast due to their massive debt and changing demographics. For a long time, Japan has been self-funding, but that's coming to an end.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Former TSA supervisor admits stealing luggage
08-17-2010
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AP
A former supervisor for the federal Transportation Security Administration has pleaded guilty to stealing $20,000 worth of jewelry and other items from checked luggage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Flipping, flopping and booming mortgage fraud
08-17-2010
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Reuters
Public records show it sold in foreclosure for $25,500 in January 2009, then resold for $355,000 in October. In between, a $110,000 mortgage was taken out on the home, supposedly for renovations. This June, the property went back into foreclosure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Obama wants new model for Fannie, Freddie
08-17-2010
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Reuters
The Obama administration called for "fundamental change" at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but a long, politically explosive debate lies ahead on the future of the bailed-out mortgage giants and housing policy that affects millions of Americans and bill
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Aging inmates straining prison systems
08-17-2010
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AP
Curtis Ballard rides a motorized wheelchair around his prison ward, which happens to be the new assisted living unit " a place of many windows and no visible steel bars " at Washington’s Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.
A stroke left Ballard unab
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
The Best Gold Interview of 2010
Jeff Clark
Much of what passes for “insider” information these days is often conspiracy-edged or largely conjecture. True inside information is actually hard to come by. So what follows is the refreshingly candid and uncut version of my talk with a first-hand p
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News Link • New World Order
The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse
08-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Will their plan work? I think not, but I’m an optimist (no, really). The pursuit of total control and total power seems rather infantile to me, be it on an impressively psychotic level. Although, if we are made to forget who the real enemy is, then..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Bill Gross Urges Full Nationalization Of GSEs, Fannie and Freddie
08-17-2010
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ZeroHedge.com & BusinessInsider.com
The GSEs are nationalized now in all but writing, this would be logical. Alas, the fact that US Debt to GDP would jump from 90% to 140% may make this proposal a little difficult to implement.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Metrics Institute: Why The Recovery Is Collapsing
08-17-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Bottom line: The economy in 2008-09 was prevented from properly re-adjusting from previous Federal Reserve money printing induced distortions in the economy.On a short-term basis the government sought to prop up parts of the distorted...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Political Parties
New Right-Wing Meme: Education Spending = 'Money-Laundering' For Dems
08-16-2010
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Eric Kleefeld
An amusing meme has popped up on the right, opposing the state education aid bill that passed last week: It's not just bad policy from big-spending Washington liberals -- it's a criminal enterprise!
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Archaeology
Earliest Writing
08-17-2010
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arclein
So-called 'plant-like' and 'trident-shaped' markings have been found on fragments of pottery dating back 5500 years.
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robert klein
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News Link • China
China's 1.1 Trillion in Hidden Income
08-17-2010
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arclein
China’s households hide as much as 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) of income that is not reported in official figures, with 80 percent accrued by the wealthiest people, a study showed.
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Early Bronze Age Seamanship
08-17-2010
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arclein
The real problem was the size of the vessel. Sailing into a mere three foot wave in a small open canoe under sail is a sure way to get killed. The vessel needs size and certainly closure to avoid been swamped.
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robert klein
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News Link • The R3VOLution Continues with Jet Lacey
Paul Craig Roberts: Without a Revolution, Americans are History
08-17-2010
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Infowars.com
The appearance of recovery was created by over-counting employment and undercounting inflation.The wars...can be immediately ended. This would reduce the US budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Police State
Government’s Growing Obsession with Fusion-Style Command Centers
08-17-2010
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Truthdig.com
It’s one of the most powerful addictions formed by government since the Sept. 11 hijackings. Blooming in every corner of the country are high-tech command facilities for fighting terrorism, battling crime linked to national security...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Homebuyer Demand All But a 'Standstill': Altos Research
08-17-2010
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HousingWire.com
"Right now, there's a whole lot of supply, but very, very little demand. The buyers that drove a flurry of activity during the spring have left a deafening silence in their wake."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Single Family Housing Starts Decline Again in July
08-17-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com & ZeroHedge.com
Housing starts of 546k came in well below expectations of 560k. And in keeping with tradition, the US government once again revised the prior period data, to make today's print seem like an improvement...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Rand Paul: Keep EPA out of Kentucky affairs
08-16-2010
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Bruce Schreiner via Kentucky.com
Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul took harsh digs at President Barack Obama while mining for votes in Kentucky coalfields Saturday, saying busybody regulators backed by the president are stifling the coal sector.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many
08-16-2010
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Paul Harris via guardian.co.uk
Even the criminals have fallen on hard times in America's poorest city as the long-term unemployed struggle to keep a grasp on normality
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • China
China overtakes Japan in 2Q as No. 2 economy
08-16-2010
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Tomoko A. Hosaka via myway
Japan lost its place as the world's No. 2 economy to China in the second quarter as receding global growth sapped momentum and stunted a shaky recovery.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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