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Date Sent: 2010-09-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 20, 2010 AM edition |
Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport
Ron Paul: The Elizabeth Warren Appointment is Outrageous -- 4chan Users Crash MPAA Website in Pro-Piracy Protest -- Wall Street’s Engines of Profit Are Slowing Down -- Debt debate in U.S. grows along with the total -- U.N. struggles to prove its relevance -- Cop Chokes Photographer And Says, "I can do whatever I want" -- U.S. Court Finds Corporations Immune From Liability For Human Rights Abuses -- FDA won’t allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification -- Employers in the U.K. to hand over all paychecks to the government first? -- Coastal Residents Under Siege: The Pentagon Papers -- Momentum Gathers For A New, Massive Bailout Of Homeowners -- DHS Requires Your Travel Plans 72 Hours in Advance -- Deleveraging: Why The US Economy Will End Not With A Whimper But A Bang -- Latest Real Estate Time Bomb: Title of Foreclosed Properties Clouded -- Home Prices To Fall Another 75%?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport
09-19-2010
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Washington Post
The unprovoked, fatal attack on Jan. 15 was the start of a months-long shooting spree against Afghan civilians that resulted in some of the grisliest allegations against American soldiers since the U.S. invasion in 2001. Members of the platoon have b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
4chan Users Crash MPAA Website in Pro-Piracy Protest
09-19-2010
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Mashable
Aiplex was the first target. The managing director admitted the company uses DDoS attacks on piracy websites such as BitTorrent search engines and trackers when they don’t comply with takedown notices from content owners. Aiplex’s website went down
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
WJLA-TV fires veteran anchor Doug McKelway, cites insubordination, misconduct
09-19-2010
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Washington Post
McKelway said the protest "may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street’s Engines of Profit Are Slowing Down
09-19-2010
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NY Times
Inside the great investment houses on Wall Street, business has taken a surprising turn " downward. Even after taxpayer bailouts restored bankers’ profits and pay, the great Wall Street money machine is decelerating.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt debate in U.S. grows along with the total
09-19-2010
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Arizona Republic
Within weeks, many Republicans and Democrats were expressing opposition to ideas that had won support in the past, such as tax cuts or broader economic stimulus, and voters were signaling alarm over the debt in national polls.
Adding to the nation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • United Nations
U.N. struggles to prove its relevance
09-19-2010
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Washington Post
President Obama will travel this week to the annual UN gathering of world leaders to reaffirm America's [taxpayer's] commitment to a "new era of multilateralism." He will arrive at a time when the UN is struggling to remain relevant on the world stag
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Meet The Man Who Sneaked Into Auschwitz
09-19-2010
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NPR
In September 1940, Pilecki didn't know exactly what was going on in Auschwitz, but he knew someone had to find out. He would spend 2 1/2 years in the prison camp, smuggling out word of the methods of execution and interrogation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Spray-on T-Shirt Tech Looks Cool, Might Actually Be Useful
09-19-2010
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PC World
Got a hot date? Pop out the spray can and spray on your very own personalized t-shirt. With your polymer-composite t-shirt you'll be hipper (or not) than Lady Gaga with her crazy outfits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Cop Chokes Photographer And Says ” I can do whatever I want”
09-19-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
CBS reporter handcuffed and choked while filming peaceful demonstration.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. Court Finds Corporations Immune From Liability For Human Rights Abuses
09-19-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
Ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, concluded that corporations could not be sued for human rights abuses under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS).
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Jaws Of Death Are About to Crush the American Middle Class
09-19-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
This is a politically dangerous predicament because the reality is we are on the cusp of an imminent and significant collapse in the standard of living for most Americans.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
FDA won’t allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification
09-19-2010
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RawStory.com
The FDA will likely not require the labeling of genetically modified salmon if it approves the food product for consumption, the Post notes that the federal agency "won't let conventional food makers trumpet the fact that their products don't contain
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bank of International Settlements
Ellen Brown: Trapped in the Spiral of Basel III
09-19-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
“[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
Employers in the U.K. to hand over all paychecks to the government first?
09-19-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
“The coalition government wants direct access to your bank account. No longer will you be paid by your employer, with them sorting out the tax to collect.”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Media: Radio
GMO Propagandists have Organic Food In the Crosshairs!
09-19-2010
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Farm Wars
Barb Peterson gives her take on how people are brainwashed into thinking that organic food is unsafe.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
County Attorney Candidate Wouldn't Prosecute Prostitution
09-19-2010
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KPHO.com
The Libertarian candidate for Maricopa County Attorney said he wouldn't focus on crimes related to prostitution or marijuana if he were elected to office.
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Michael Kielsky
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Apocalypse Now: Survivalist Stories All the Rage
09-19-2010
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Mondo Frazier
There may be disagreement about what form the coming Apocalypse will take, but there's no disagreement over getting ready for it. Some suggestions on how to ready yourself for the coming Times of Doom.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
Michael Moore: Confuses McDonalds at Ground Zero with Free Cuban Health Care
09-19-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Michael Moore says that the McDonald's at Ground Zero has "killed more Americans than the 911 hijackers." Time to call the food police!
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Job Creation and Small Business Relief Act of 2010
09-19-2010
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John Hayward
Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the ones least likely to be considered by Big Government.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Housing
Momentum Gathers For A New, Massive Bailout Of Homeowners
09-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
A new federal program that would be tasked with a massive refinancing of mortgages for strapped Americans has been chattered about for awhile, though The White House has never indicated that the idea is on the table.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
DHS Requires Your Travel Plans 72 Hours in Advance
09/19/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
I haven't seen this anywhere yet. I got an email from American Airlines detailing a new requirement imposed on them by the Department of Homeland Security. Starting Novem
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama " Wow, What a Guy!
09-19-2010
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Farm Wars
The lying skill, so perfected by our president many years ago, seemed to have lost some of its magic. Well, what do you expect? Undoubtedly our poor president hasn’t slept in weeks.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Americans are Not Deleveraging ... They Are Going On One Last Binge
09-19-2010
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georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
People across the country tightening their belts in order to pay down their mortgages and credit-card balances. A closer look, though, suggests a different picture: Some are defaulting, while the rest aren’t making much of a dent in their debts...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US economy fears as consumer confidence plunges
09-19-2010
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Telegraph.co.uk/
American consumers do not expect to be feeling any more confident in six months' time, a widely-watched index revealed today, underlining the hurdles facing a recovery in the world's biggest economy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Deleveraging: Why The US Economy Will End Not With A Whimper But A Bang
09-19-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It would appear consumers do not, in fact, moderate their spending while still in possession of credit (regardless of its cost) - quite the contrary: they accelerate spending until the charge off threshold at the lender is breached, and all credit is
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Your Housing Nightmare: Here It Comes?
09-19-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
Now I'm gonna lay forward something that's very, very dark.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Latest Real Estate Time Bomb: Title of Foreclosed Properties Clouded
09-19-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Another ticking time bomb in the realm of real estate bad behavior is bound to go off sooner rather than later, and it is likely to impede normalization of values of residential property.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America's Lost Decade - Another One in Progress Now
09-19-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
The US used to point the finger at Japan's "Lost Decade" saying "It won't happen here." But it did. Median wages are nearly 5% lower in real terms than in 2000, the poverty rate is at a 15 year high, and the S&P 500 is about 20% lower than it was...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Home Prices To Fall Another 75%?
09-19-2010
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HousingDoom.com
Wages of Americans have been falling (in real dollars) since 1970, making 1970 house-prices a reasonable point-in-time to look at as a possible, long-term equilibrium point for prices. That implies that U.S. house-prices will fall another 75%...
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Jack Gregson
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