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Date Sent: 2010-10-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 13, 2010 PM edition |
Gold Hits $1,367.65 On Report China To Put More Reserves Into Gold
Former US Official: Invest in Secure Internet Protocols -- William Gibson says the future is right here, right now -- Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of detainees (VIDEO) -- Crazy for 'Rally to Restore Sanity' -- Apple patents 'anti-sexting' technology -- Ron Paul speech to Tea Party uncensored -- Linda Norgrove: US navy Seal faces disciplinary action over grenade death -- Band's Stunt Shuts Down 101 Freeway -- The American Housing Market Is Headed for Total Destruction -- Laura Wells, Green Party candidate for governor, arrested at Whitman-Brown debate -- Court: Does Terrorism Law Apply To Wife Attack? -- Attorneys General in 50 States Join Foreclosure Probe -- Child Abduction because of Patriot Association -- Barry Ritholtz On Foreclosure-Gate: America is a Banana Republic -- Gonzalo Lira: The Second Leg Down of America’s Death Spiral -- Here Is Your Chance To Check If You Are The Victim Of Mortgage Fraud -- What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess? -- Gold Merchants Strike in Iran -- SpaceShipTwo's Tourist Joyrides Could Launch Next Year
AZ: "Free Will vs.
Determinism" Lecture, PHX Objectivist meeting Thursday; Tom Woods Speaking in Phoenix, October 20; AZC4L Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Hits $1,367.65 On Report China To Put More Reserves Into Gold
10-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Gold takes off, as the CRB index passes 300, with America blissfully unaware $100 oil and 20% U-6 unemployment is next, leading to a total collapse in the economy. The catalyst: Bloomberg reports China to put more reserves in gold.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Surges After Japan Says It Is Considering New QE
10-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
A quick look at gold price action demonstrates that someone somewhere is actively debasing currencies. An even quicker scan of headlines confirms this to be the case...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Former US Official: Invest in Secure Internet Protocols
10-13-2010
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IDG News
The state of security on the Internet has become so dire that research is needed in next-generation protocols, a former senior White House official for cybersecurity said.
Developing those protocols would be a better use of research money than inves
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News Link • Future Predictions
William Gibson says the future is right here, right now
10-13-2010
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www.bbc.co.uk
The rapid rate of technological and social change means the future comes crashing towards us faster than ever before, says visionary science fiction author William Gibson.
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News Link • Torture
Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of detainees (VIDEO)
10-13-2010
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Rawstory
A former US soldier in Iraq has come forward with video of his fellow soldiers subjecting Iraqi detainees to what he describes as "mental, emotional, degrading" abuse.
US Army Specialist Ethan McCord was a member of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Communications
Apple patents 'anti-sexting' technology
10-13-2010
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CNN
Messages containing blocked material either would not be received or would have the objectionable content redacted. Unlike other text blockers, Apple's would be able to filter content based on a child's grade level and claims to filter abbreviated wo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul speech to Tea Party uncensored
10-13-2010
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prisonplanet.com
Rep. Ron Paul brought a crowd at the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention to its feet October 9th, delivering a fiery speech about an “intellectual revolution.” He said the economy is going “to get a lot worse before it gets better” and advocated g
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News Link • Military
Linda Norgrove: US navy Seal faces disciplinary action over grenade death
10-13-2010
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The Guardian
The Guardian has learned that a US special forces soldier who is believed to have accidentally killed Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing to inform his commanding officers that he had used a grenade until long after the event
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 Report Is A Cover Up From Start To Finish
10-13-2010
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prisonplanet.com
Appearing on Judge Napolitano’s show, Colonel Anthony Shaffer alleges a cover-up at the highest levels of the US government surrounding 9/11.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Band's Stunt Shuts Down 101 Freeway
10-13-2010
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NBC News
Traffic on the 101 Freeway was at a standstill after a publicity stunt involving a group of musicians. At about 10:30 a.m., a box truck owned by Imperial Stars parked sideways across three lanes on the freeway and musicians performing on the roof
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News Link • Food
You want flies with that? McDonald’s Happy Meal shows no sign of decomposing after SIX MONTHS
10-13-2010
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prisonplanet.com
Worrying: More than three months in and the usual effects of time appear to have had no impact
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The American Housing Market Is Headed for Total Destruction
10-13-2010
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whiskeyandgunpowder.com
The issue with the recent robo-signing scandal is that clear title could disappear in the American mortgage market. Part of the outrage is that U.S. banks have been foreclosing on mortgages which they don’t even own.
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News Link • Activism
Laura Wells, Green Party candidate for governor, arrested at Whitman-Brown debate
10-13-2010
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San Francisco Chronicle
Marnie Glickman, the spokeswoman for Wells, said that the two had tickets to the debate and were entering Angelico Hall, when they were pulled aside by authorities. She said that they were told that they could not enter because of her status as a gub
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News Link • TERRORISM
Court: Does Terrorism Law Apply To Wife Attack?
10-13-2010
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www.cbsnews.com
Court Deciding Whether Anti-terrorism Law Misapplied In Case Of Woman Who Sent Toxic Chemicals
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News Link • Housing
CNBC Has A Serious Wake Up Call On The Implications Of Foreclosure-Gate
10-13-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
Karl Denninger "Here it comes folks - Watch this carefully, especially around 3:30 onward."
(You can sense the fear in the studio, Mark Haines appeared to be fully awake for the first time in 10 years)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Attorneys General in 50 States Join Foreclosure Probe
10-13-2010
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Bloomberg.com
Top legal officers of all 50 states opened a joint investigation into home foreclosures, saying they will probe practices at banks and mortgage companies.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Positive News
Child Abduction because of Patriot Association
10-13-2010
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RealityReport.TV
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | In this edition of the Reality Report Gary reports from Gatlinburg, Tennessee and gives an update to the developing story regarding the child abduction of an associate of Oath Keepers. Nina delivers this wee
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News Link • World News
First of 33 trapped Chilean miners rescued (VIDEO)
10-12-2010
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AP
The first of 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months in Chile was rescued early Wednesday.
A capsule containing miner Florencio Avalos broke the surface at 12:10 a.m. local time as a crowd cheered. He climbed out of the rescue capsu
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News Link • Housing
Barry Ritholtz On Foreclosure-Gate: America is a Banana Republic
10-13-2010
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youtube.com
Barry Ritholtz has over the past 10 days has done a really good job of getting to the heart of matter on Foreclosure-Gate. This video clip is from an interview with Max Keiser on Russia Today.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: Max Keiser Is Either A Nut, Or.....
10-13-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
A lot of big money around the world is going to drop the dollar and basically disenfranchise the US economy. This is not just a remark in passing, this means that the US economy goes belly up effectively and the dollar gets completely wiped out...
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News Link • Precious Metals
Denninger: The Gold Market: F-U Bernanke, Washington And Obama
10-13-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
This is a vote from the commodity market that Bernanke, Congress and you, the American public, will not force the scams and frauds in the banking system that have been festering since 2007 into the open where they can be resolved.
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Is It Time For Collective Action Yet?
10-13-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
It's about time that someone in the mainstream media comes out and says it - this wasn't an accident, it wasn't "irrational exuberance", it wasn't unbridled speculation, it was an intentional and pernicious scam.
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News Link • Housing
Gonzalo Lira: The Second Leg Down of America’s Death Spiral
10-13-2010
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gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
I swear to God Almighty: Mortgage Backed Securities are America’s Herpes"the gift that keeps on oozing.
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News Link • Housing
Here Is Your Chance To Check If You Are The Victim Of Mortgage Fraud
10-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Wondering if you are one of those suckers paying a mortgage in limbo, with all the payments due to some non-existent mortgage noteholder getting retained at the servicer banks? Well, if you can spare 3 minutes then "Where's the Note" is for you.
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News Link • Housing
What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
10-13-2010
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Washingtonsblog.com/
It is the company created and owned by all of the big banks to process title to property in the U.S. Approximately 60% of the nation’s residential mortgages are recorded in the name of MERS.
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News Link • Housing
Title Ins. Woes Illustrate Liabilities of Foreclosure Mess For TBTF Banks
10-13-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
One development Monday that didn’t get the attention it deserved is the fact that Bank of America is now eating title insurance liability on foreclosed properties sold by its servicer.
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News Link • Housing
Video: Yves Smith's Excellent Explanation of Foreclosure-Gate
10-13-2010
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Business News Network
Yves Smith does an excellent job of explaining Foreclosure-Gate in a way that we can all understand. She states that there were so many intermediary steps that were no followed, and so many frauds upon the court that this problem will...
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News Link • Energy
Wind Could Provide 20 pct of Global Power by 2030
10-13-2010
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arclein
By 2030, wind energy would produce 5,400 TWh -- 18.8 to 21.8 percent of the world's power supply, the report said.
The more conservative "reference" scenario based on figures from the UN's International Energy Agency saw wind power triple in
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News Link • Iran
Gold Merchants Strike in Iran
10-13-2010
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arclein
A protest by merchants selling gold and jewelry in Iran’s bazaar marketplaces will start its fourth week on Wednesday, triggered by the regime’s plan to add a tax of three percent on them. Discontent in the bazaars helped set the stage for the overth
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Greatest Swindle
10-13-2010
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arclein
Making loans to people who are uncreditworthy, because they’ll agree to pay you more, and that’s how you grow rapidly. You can grow really fast if you loan to people who can’t you pay you back
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News Link • Science
Alien Signal Detected?
10-13-2010
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arclein
astronomer Ragbir Bhathal, a scientist at the University of Western Sydney, claimed to have detected a suspicious pulse of light nearly two years ago, that came from the same area of the galaxy as the location of Gliese 581g, according to the U.K.'s
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News Link • Just For Fun!
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Empire Strikes Back
10-12-2010
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Charlie Jane Anders via WIRED.com
Here’s a slightly different version of the battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. It’s just one of many revelations in a new making-of book. More rare concept art below
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World’s Most Powerful Laser on Target for Awesome Science
10-12-2010
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Dave Mosher via WIRED.com
Scientists recently pulled together the pieces of the world’s most powerful laser and, in a first-ever complete dry run, pulled the trigger on a peppercorn-sized pellet of nuclear fuel. In short: It worked.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Throw a Knife
10-12-2010
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Bryan Gardiner via howto.wired.com
Blade-slinging is the only art that'll earn you the respect of circus folk and Navy SEALs alike. But hitting a target from 12 feet away isn't that hard, according to Rick Lemberg. Here's how to stick it.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceShipTwo's Tourist Joyrides Could Launch Next Year
10-12-2010
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Mike Wall via Space.com
After making its first solo glide flight Sunday (Oct. 10), the private suborbital spacecraft SpaceShipTwo could achieve another major milestone " a powered test flight involving the firing of its rocket motor " in the next few months
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