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Date Sent: 2011-01-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 31, 2011 PM edition |
Why Does Darrell Issa Want to Know Everyone Who Filed a FOIA Request?
’40,000 violations of the law’ in FBI snooping: report -- Oregon Senator: Police should get warrants for mobile data -- Visualizing Obama's budget cuts. Student Explains Obamanomics in 1 Minute -- Bipartisanship pop quiz - by Glenn Greenwald -- India demands full BlackBerry surveillance access -- After Egypt, Will U.S. Get 'Internet Kill Switch'? -- ROBERT SHILLER: House Prices Could Fall For Years -- Spinning Begins In Earnest: The Power Elite Warn on Debt Crisis -- And There It Is: Neocons Test Idea of US Intervention in Egypt -- The Meredith Whitney Effect Has Its Most Violent Week Yet -- Foreclosures: Arizona Using $125 Million in Fed. Money Saves 1 Home -- China Urged To Increase Gold And Silver Reserves -- Hillary Clinton: US Won’t Support Mubarak’s Ouster -- The Hosni Mubarak Fan Club -- Inflation is Theft! - by Ron Paul -- Calif. man accused in plot on Mich. mosque -- Senator moves to ban bath salts -- Taking Stock of Howard Zinn’s Legacy -- White House quietly exempts pampered politicos from Obamacare -- Richard Dell on Space Fusion -- Foreclosure-Gate: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans? -- Philip Giraldi: The Road to National Suicide -- Revolutionary Change in Egypt: Internal or Made in USA?
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News Link • Surveillance
Why Does Darrell Issa Want to Know Everyone Who Filed a FOIA Request?
01-31-2011
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SmirkingChimp.com
Here's an ominous development that is likely to pass almost unnoticed: a congressman requesting that the federal government identify to him everyone who has made a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
’40,000 violations of the law’ in FBI snooping: report
01-31-2011
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Rawstory
Companies 'all too willing' to comply with FBI requests for personal information, EFF says. "The documents suggest the FBI’s intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Oregon Senator: Police should get warrants for mobile data
01-31-2011
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Rawstory
"If you asked most Americans, I think they would tell you that surreptitiously turning somebody's cell phone into a modern-day tracking device ... and using it to monitor their movements, 24/7, is a pretty serious intrusion into their privacy, pretty
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Bipartisanship pop quiz - by Glenn Greenwald
01-31-2011
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Salon
On his panel a "Democratic strategist," a "Republican strategist," and "a Washington insider." Ratigan tried without success to get them to understand why putting someone in a cage alone for 23 hours a day under extremely repressive conditions was u
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
India demands full BlackBerry surveillance access
01-31-2011
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Reuters
It was not immediately clear what the Indian government, which says it is driven by security concerns, would now do after the Canadian smartphone maker failed to fulfill demands to monitor encrypted corporate email by a January 31 deadline. RIM had p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
After Egypt, Will U.S. Get 'Internet Kill Switch'?
01-31-2011
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PC Magazine
In Egypt, the government demanded its 4 major ISPs shut down service. Could the U.S. government get away with asking Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, and the like to shut down their networks to stop citizens from organizing protests? Anything is possib
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
ROBERT SHILLER: House Prices Could Fall For Years
01-31-2011
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Business Insider
This is an interview conducted by Business Insider Editor in Chief Henry Blodget In Davos.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Spinning Begins In Earnest: The Power Elite Warn on Debt Crisis
01-31-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
These are very smart guys. My guess is they know the crisis is coming and they know they can't stop the crisis, so they want to get out in front of it. If they are out with warnings now, they will be in a better position to shape what follows...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
CPAC 2011: Ron Paul Needs Us Now
01-31-2011
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YouTube via Michael Maresco on Twitter (YEAH!)
Shedding a tear early on Monday morning - what a way to start the week! - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
James Howard Kunstler: The Earth Shifts
01-31-2011
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Kunstler.com
Many here in the dreamland of Happy Motoring and Cheez Wiz are asking themselves why President Obama is waffling about the obvious tides of "change" now lapping over the ancient Kingdom on the Nile. How can he not believe in it?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
And There It Is: Neocons Test Idea of US Intervention in Egypt
01-31-2011
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AntiWar.com / Jeremy Sapienza
IF Egypt, or the other states who are without doubt in the same line of teetering dominoes, falls, Dan Senor raises the non-negotiable need to “deploy resources” " that’s code for invasion
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Meredith Whitney Effect Has Its Most Violent Week Yet
01-31-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
For his Chart Of The Week, Nomura's George Goncalves looks at bond fund flows, and points out that muni fund outflows for the week ended January 19th, were the largest yet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures: Arizona Using $125 Million in Fed. Money Saves 1 Home
01-31-2011
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HousingDoom.com
Of the 1,055 Arizona home owners who have applied, only one has qualified for help from the program. A National Bank borrower is slated to get $40,000 knocked off a distressed home loan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown
01-30-2011
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LifeHacker
The Egyptian government cut internet connections to silence protests, leaving nearly all of its citizens without online access. But they weren't entirely successful. When governments shut down broadband and mobile connections, here's what to do.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action
01-30-2011
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The Guardian
Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.
Signed "long live Egypt", the slickly produced 26-page doc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
PA Auditor: Release Non-Violent Prison Offenders And Save $350 Million
01-30-2011
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Crooks & Liars
Across the country, politicians and their cronies have invested heavily in the for-profit prison systems. The more people go to jail, the more money they make:
Pennsyvlania Auditor General Jack Wagner has found a way for the state to save as m
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
China Urged To Increase Gold And Silver Reserves
01-31-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Bloomberg has just reported, that "China central bank adviser Xia Bin said the country should increase its gold and silver reserves, the Economic Information Daily reported today
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton: US Won’t Support Mubarak’s Ouster
01-31-2011
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Antiwar.com
She insisted that the US wanted Mubarak to listen to those opposition figures who have “legitimate grievances” and move towards a “managed change” and an “orderly transition” toward a somewhat more democratic society.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Hosni Mubarak Fan Club
01-31-2011
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AntiWar.com / Justin Raimondo
Hosni Mubarak’s American fan club is a coalition of neocons like John Bolton, nutballs, like Pamela Geller, and the Israel-appeasers who inhabit the security and diplomatic establishment and don’t dare sneeze without Tel Aviv’s permission.
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Brock Lorber
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
Inflation is Theft! - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Unemployment continues to plague our economy. In spite of constant claims we have just turned the corner into recovery, the jobs report remains grim with no real signs of improvement. While Keynesian economists and big government apologists
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News Link • TERRORISM
Calif. man accused in plot on Mich. mosque
01-31-2011
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AP
A man loaded his vehicle with explosives and was planning to attack one of the nation's largest mosques before law enforcement officers stopped him outside the facility as mourners gathered for a funeral, authorities say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Senator moves to ban drug sold under bath salts guise
01-31-2011
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Reuters
Two drugs that produce a "meth-like" high and are being sold under the guise of "bath salts" would be banned as federally controlled substances under a bill unveiled on Sunday by Senator Charles Schumer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • American History
Taking Stock of Howard Zinn’s Legacy
01-31-2011
It’s been a year since the passing of Howard Zinn. The prolific writer and historian helped mold the minds of generations of activists. His seminal work, “A People’s History of the United States,” took the study of American history out of the iron gr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
White House quietly exempts pampered politicos from Obamacare
01-31-2011
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Washington Times
Last year, we learned the HHS had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned the number has skyrocketed to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Eliminating Left Hand Turns
01-31-2011
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arclein
Superstreets are thoroughfares where the left-hand turns from side streets are re-routed, as is traffic from side streets that needs to cross the thoroughfare. In both instances, drivers are first required to make a right turn and then make a U-turn
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Richard Dell on Space Fusion
01-31-2011
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arclein
Mr. Dell believes that he and his team have developed a method for generating fusion power which is appropriate for providing the propulsion for exploring and colonizing space. He is confident that this approach could lead to spacecraft capable of fl
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Breaking Network Bottlenecks
01-31-2011
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arclein
As sensors that do things like detect touch and motion in cell phones get smaller, cheaper and more reliable, computer manufacturers are beginning to take seriously the decade-old idea of “smart dust” " networks of tiny wireless devices that permea
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Islamic Revolt
01-31-2011
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arclein
Egypt has often harassed the Qatar-based channel since it began in 1996, setting off a revolution in Arab media in the face of state-controlled information, but it had never before tried to shut down its operations completely.
But the channel led
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans?
01-31-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
What happened is that the benefits for originating bad loans exceeded the cost of these negative consequences " someone was paying enough more for bad loans to overwhelm the normal economic incentives to resist such bad underwriting.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Philip Giraldi: The Road to National Suicide
01-31-2011
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Antiwar.com
It is not often that one sees an entire nation marching in lockstep to go over a cliff into an abyss, but that is essentially what the United States is doing at the moment.
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Jack Gregson
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