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Date Sent: 2011-02-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 9, 2011 PM edition |
US terror threat highest since 9/11: Napolitano -- Strikes erupt as Egypt protests defy VP warnings
At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions -- Bernanke to avoid Ron Paul's Committee -- WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices -- WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak
-- U.S. Home Values Lost $798 Billion Last Quarter, $9.8 Trillion
Since Peak -- Joseph Stiglitz Predicts Another 2 Million Foreclosures
In 2011 -- Major Obstacle to Cellulosic Biofuel Overcome -- Buyers are not afraid of buying bank REO's! (chart) -- Biometric Test Bed: India's Census and Biometric National ID Card -- Arab Revolution -- Federal Government Now Wants Biometric Data For E-Verify Program -- Saudi Said To Have Overstated Crude Oil Reserves: "Peak Oil"? -- Presenting Obama's Plan To Bail Out The States: The Meredith Whitney Effect -- US Army official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico -- People Power v. Duplicity in Egypt and Washington -- America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President - by Ray McGovern -- Glenn Beck - A Fool and His Libertarianism Are Soon Parted -- Ron Paul: Dollar Collapse Will Bring Down U.S. Empire (video) -- Big Brother arrives with iris eye-scan ID on cells, ATMs, PCs
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News Link • World News
Strikes erupt as Egypt protesters defy VP warnings
02-09-2011
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AP
Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Mubarak despite warnings from the vice pres
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak
02-09-2011
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Daily Telegraph
The new vice-president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, is a long-standing favourite of Israel's who spoke daily to the Tel Aviv government via a secret "hotline" to Cairo, leaked documents disclose.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. terror threat at highest since 9/11: Napolitano
02-09-2011
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Reuters
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned the threat of terrorism against the United States was in some ways "at its most heightened state" since the September 11, 2001 attacks. In addition to the threats by al Qaeda, the militant group beh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions
02-09-2011
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AP
In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next 5 months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke to avoid Ron Paul's Committee
02-09-2011
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AP
Republicans led the opposition, upset over the Fed’s role in bailing out Wall Street firms during the financial crisis. Many economists, academics and supporters in Congress credit Bernanke with helping prevent the Great Recession from turning into a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Weds. Feb 9th 2011
02-09-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The Rockefeller World Empire - Strangling the Egyptians - How the War Machine Destroys the Economy - Are We Poised for Weimar? - Buying Silver While It's Still Relatively Cheap - Can Jesse Ventura Put a Hammerlock on the TSA?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Have you ever posted a picture on line?
02-09-2011
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ABC News
Have you ever posted a picture on line?
THIS IS NOT A JOKE
Posting Pictures could be Dangerous to your health or your loved ones...
PLEASE check this out...
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Reported by:
Robert Kleine
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News Link • Positive News
The Great Super Bowl Fumble
02-09-2011
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RealityReport.TV
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | Is history repeating itself? Will America fall like Rome? Do Americans have their eyes turned to games and idols rather than to leaders and policy makers? This week on Reality Report episode 80, we look at t
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Housing
New-Home Recovery Seen as Post-Super Bowl Selling Season Starts
02-09-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Editor Note: This Is Desperate Spin. Homebuilder executives and economists predict a post-Super Bowl bounce in demand for residential construction as Americans turn their attention from football to another national pastime: house hunting.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
02-09-2011
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The Guardian
The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating. The kingdom's crude oil reserves may have been overstated by as much as 300bn barrels " nearly 40%.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
27% of Homeowners Now Suffer Negative Home Equity: Cheerleaders Spin
02-09-2011
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CNBC.com
A full 27 percent of borrowers are now “underwater” on their mortgages, up from 23 percent in the previous quarter, according to a new report from Zillow.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
U.S. Home Values Lost $798 Billion Last Quarter, $9.8 Trillion Since Peak
02-09-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The average home is down 27 percent from peak. This puts the total loss from the housing crash at an incredible $9.8 trillion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Joseph Stiglitz Predicts Another 2 Million Foreclosures In 2011
02-09-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Stiglitz now expects the housing situation at the root of the crisis to get worse. He expects an addition 2 million foreclosures in 2011, adding to the 7 million that have already occurred in the U.S.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Did the Year 2000 Mark the Debt Saturation Point?
02-09-2011
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economicedge.blogspot.com
By some studies, today it requires roughly 6 new debt dollars to create $1 of net GDP growth. This is due to the diminishing return on debt, again a concept that goes alongside debt saturation. As more debt is added to the system...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Devonian Biodiversity Loss
02-09-2011
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arclein
An influx of invasive species can stop the dominant natural process of new species formation and trigger mass extinction events, according to research results published today in the journal PLoS ONE.
The study of the collapse of Earth's marine li
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Major Obstacle to Cellulosic Biofuel Overcome
02-09-2011
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arclein
A newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume two types of sugar from plants to produce ethanol, researchers report. The sugars are glucose, a six-carbon sugar that is relatively easy to ferment; and xylose, a five-carbon sugar that has
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Buyers are not afraid of buying bank REO's! (chart)
02-09-2011
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The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel
Despite the questions swirling around foreclosures, the survey says that the majority of Americans are still willing to buy
Over the last few months The Hallmark Abstract Sentinel as well as the partners of Hallmark Abstract Service have tried to
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Test Bed: India's Census and Biometric National ID Card
02-09-2011
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livemint.com
After Census is over, from April we will start collecting the biometrics (photographs, 10 fingerprints, 2 iris prints) and this will feed into the UID. After getting the UID, we will be issuing the National Population register card to every...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Solar Cutting Torch
02-09-2011
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arclein
While many teenagers are content to sit at home playing computer games, this one has set his sights on something a little more ambitious.
Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror t
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Arab Revolution
02-09-2011
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arclein
Is history repeating itself? Have the events of 1848 in Europe repeated themselves in the Arab World? Will 2011 see the same outcomes as 1848? Only the Arab people can decide. Their fate is in their hands, but they should learn from the mistakes of 1
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
Federal Government Now Wants Biometric Data For E-Verify Program
02-09-2011
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benzinga.com/
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that the federal E-Verify program needs a biometric component, according to the Security Industry Association (SIA).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Robert Scheer: Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks
02-09-2011
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TruthDig.com
After a good start, the Obama administration’s response to the democratic revolution in Egypt has begun to exude the odor of betrayal. Now distancing itself from the essential demand of the protesters that the dictator must go...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Saudi Said To Have Overstated Crude Oil Reserves: "Peak Oil"?
02-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
As the Guardian reports on 4 just declassified cables, "The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Presenting Obama's Plan To Bail Out The States: The Meredith Whitney Effect
02-09-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
We all know by now that Meredith eats kittens for breakfast, deserves to be grilled by Joe McCarthy's exhumated corpse for telling communist truths, pardon, lies. But just in case she is on to something, here comes the president's plan...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
US Army official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico
02-09-2011
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sltrib.com/
“This isn’t just about drugs and about illegal immigrants,” he said. “This is about, potentially, a takeover of a government by individuals who are corrupt.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Books
Donald Rumsfeld speaks of light and dark Korea (Photo series)
02-09-2011
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The Political Commentator
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today as he was interviewing former President Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about his book "Known and Unknown." During the interview the quote of Rumsfeld during a 2002 press briefing was discussed where
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Media: Television
Glenn Beck - A Fool and His Libertarianism Are Soon Parted
02-08-2011
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Becky Chandler
Do you think Fox will yank Glenn Beck? He still has his chalkboards, but Beck is now a lonely nutcase standing alone in a political wilderness. Bill Kristol has made it clear that even neocons want absolutely nothing to do with him. It's disappoint
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul: Dollar Collapse Will Bring Down U.S. Empire (video)
2/08/11
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Youtube
This is rubber.This the road. This where they meet. Buckle up!
Ron Paul exposes the Fed's destructive monetary policy and talks about tomorrow's hearing entitled "Can Monetary Policy Really Create Jobs?"
Ron Paul is America's leading voice fo
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Patriot Act Extension Fails in House: Small Victory for Civil Liberties
2/9/2011
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therealnewsnow
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives rejected the extension of three unconstitutional surveillance tools within the Patriot Act. The House voted 277-148 in favor of the extension, but Republicans brought the bill to the floor using a special pro
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The Real News
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Big Brother arrives with iris eye-scan ID on cells, ATMs, PCs
02-09-2011
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Terrence Aym
Hector Hoyos wants to watch the watchers that are watching everyone else. Hoyos, the founder and CEO of Hoyos Corporation, manufactures iris photographing technology. As some patents on proprietary iris-scanning technology will soon expire making the
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Real Reason Ben Bernanke Continues To Print
02-08-2011
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Gold Eagle
We've been over the numerous BS excuses that US Dollar destroyer extraordinaire Ben Bernake has made for QE enough times that today I'd rather simply focus on the REAL reason he continues to funnel TRILLIONS of Dollars into Wall Street Banks.
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Jean Carbonneau
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