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Date Sent: 2011-02-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 11, 2011 PM edition |
President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule Ends; Army in Control
Muni Bloodbath: Arizona's financial rating downgraded -- Longtime spy chief now atop Egyptian pyramid -- Counterfeit Silver Coins circulating -- The Evil Lincoln -- Dumpster Diving For Food Is Now A Crime In The UK -- House clears way for Patriot Act extension -- China Denies It Faces Half A Trillion In Fannie & Freddie Losses -- Bernanke To House Budget Committee – Stop The Spending -- Doug Casey: Make Corruption Your Friend -- How the Government Will Take Control of Your Retirement Account -- Wake Up: The Maritime Flag Is In Your Face -- Obama Administration Wants To Make Us A Nation Of Renters -- Is The DHS Exaggerating the Threat of Terror for Political Purposes? -- IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn calls for new world currency --
China dependency: It's deja vu' all over again! -- Peer-to-peer digital
currency -- Israeli and PA Forces Suppress Solidarity with Egyptians
AZ: Fruit Tree Class at Bakers
Nursery & Hands On Chicken Class at the Urban Farm Sat./Sun.
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News Link • World News
Mubarak Steps Down
02-11-2011
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slatest.slate.com
After 18 days of protests, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has given in to demonstrators and handed power over to the military, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced on state-run TV today.
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News Link • Propaganda
Former Employee Calls Fox News "a Propaganda Outfit"
02-11-2011
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slatest.slate.com
Fox News is not an unbiased purveyor of information. Not news, you say? OK, it's true that Steve Benen and Conor Friedersdorf say exactly that on almost a daily basis. What is news is that the latest criticism comes from a former employee of the netw
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The march towards capital controls is quickening
02-11-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
In the late 1920s, the economy of the Weimar Republic was beset by numerous fiscal troubles. The global depression spread quickly to Germany, undermining the government’s ability to make its reparation payments from the Great War.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
IMF calls for dollar alternative
02-11-2011
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money.cnn.com
The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
IMF Calls for SDR-Denominated Bonds
02-11-2011
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dailybell.com
Since national fiat currencies are unstable, let us migrate to global ones ...
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Middle East Revolutions Force West to Knees?
02-11-2011
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dailybell.com
The West must yield to the hopes and dreams of the Middle East.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Bloodbath: Arizona's financial rating downgraded
02-11-2011
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AZcentral.com
The state's uncertain budget outlook has prompted Moody's Investor Service to downgrade Arizona's debt outlook to "negative" from "stable."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Longtime spy chief now atop Egyptian pyramid
02-11-2011
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CNN
(CNN) -- Long a pillar of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule over Egypt, Omar Suleiman now sits at the top of the pyramid as its de facto president and quickly urged Egyptians to go home and get back to work.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Counterfeit Silver Coins: the high price of silver is bringing out some sneaky fakes
02-11-2011
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KOMO 4 News
Made mostly of steel and simply heavily plated with silver, China is making these things by the thousands.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
The Evil Lincoln
02-11-2011
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The International Libertarian
This article was originally published at OpEdNews.com on February 15, 2009
With Abraham Lincoln’s birthday just passed on February 12th the media was replete with praise for him. Unfortunately, this whitewashed view of him is misguided. Rather tha
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Food
Dumpster Diving For Food Is Now A Crime In The UK
02-11-2011
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Dailymail.co.uk
A woman was handcuffed and 'treated like a hardened criminal' after she helped herself to food worth £200 that had been thrown away by a Tesco store (Fresh & Easy) following a power cut.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
House clears way for Patriot Act extension
02-11-2011
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Rawstory.com
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday night to clear the road for an extension of controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China Denies It Faces Half A Trillion In Fannie & Freddie Losses
02-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
At issue are three kinds of Fannie and Freddie securities. The two companies' stock prices have plunged to nearly zero, but SAFE said in its statement Friday that China has never invested in the stock of the two companies, so it hasn't been...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Obama Declares GSE Model "Dead", Increases Down Payment Requirements
02-11-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
"The GSE model is dead," an Obama administration official told reporters as the Treasury Department released a long-awaited report on options to revamp housing reform. " As Reuters reports: "The housing "white paper" presents three...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke To House Budget Committee " Stop The Spending
02112011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Ben Bernanke came to Capitol Hill to talk about spending, and he was very forthright with his calls for the spending to go down in order for the economy to go up.
That’s right, Big Ben has ridden to the rescue " he was three late due to a lame hor
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Complete List Of Cuts Originally Proposed For Continuing Resolution
02112011
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www.drscoundrels.com
I bet the Democrats don’t want to see this list, and I am sure they really don’t want you to see it.
They’re probably afraid you’ll be cheering and doing a fist pump going “YEAH, CUT IT BABY!”
This is the original 74 billion proposed that would
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Balanced Budget Amendment Proposed In VA On Top Of Spending Revolt In DC
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www.drscoundrels.com
Hal Rogers said he was committed to cutting 74 billion out of the continuing resolution (CR) that was being introduced at the Obama 2011 levels. While falling short of the proposed 100 billion, there was an attempt being made to spend less. It wasn’t
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Healthcare
And the Obamacare Hits Just Keep On Coming!
021120111
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www.drscoundrels.com
Back on January 28, 2011 I wrote a story about Scary Kathleen Sebelius and her anal fact extractor. Wherein she claimed that Obamacare created 1 million jobs; not to mention the side effect of encouraging thousands of little sponges to become entrep
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Corruption
Doug Casey: Make Corruption Your Friend
02-11-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Doug Casey: As Tacitus said in the second century A.D., "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." It's absolutely predictable that as all these governments around the world " and I mean all of them...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
How the Government Will Take Control of Your Retirement Account
02-11-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
When politicians and bankers are in bed with each other, banks can be compelled to loan a portion of their deposits to the treasury at unrealistic terms, sticking bank customers with sub-optimal yields below the rate of inflation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Wake Up: The Maritime Flag Is In Your Face
02-11-2011
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beforeitsnews.com
A whole other set of laws are in effect under the fringed Maritime flag. And we're seeing it continue to become more and more prevalent on military uniforms, police and private security uniforms, in public areas and throughout government.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The Foreclosure Crisis Remains Awful
02-11-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
So, not so good. What's worse? The big three foreclosure titans continue to look depressing.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Art
Russia hands over 'lost' archive of US film history
02-11-2011
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independent.co.uk/arts
The first of 200 films thought to be lost from the early years of American film-making were returned to the United States after being carefully filed for decades by Russian archivists.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
NAR: Obama Administration Wants To Make Us A Nation Of Renters
02-11-2011
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HousingDoom.com
The Obama Administration and some members of Congress want to turn the clock back on the housing market to the 1930s, turning us into a nation of renters and making home ownership something that only the rich can afford.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Is The DHS Exaggerating the Threat of Terror for Political Purposes?
02-11-2011
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washingtonsblog.com
The bottom line is that fear of terrorism makes people stupid, and so we should at least question whether the government is selling fear for political purposes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Whitney Muni Bond Forecast 'An Important Call': Chanos
02-11-2011
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CNBC.com
Banking analyst Meredith Whitney's controversial call expecting a wave of municipal bond defaults has won her at least one prominent supporter"hedge fund manager Jim Chanos.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Turmoil In The Housing Market Makes Recovery All But Impossible
02-11-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
We expect the housing situation to cause additional problems for the economy. According to the Center For Economic Policy Research (CEPR), if house prices decline by another 15%, the loss in household net worth would amount to about $2.5 trillion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn calls for new world currency
02-11-2011
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Telegraph.co.uk/news
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has called for a new world currency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar and protect against future financial instability.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China dependency: It's deja vu' all over again!
02-11-2011
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The Political Commentator
Has the United States put itself between the proverbial rock and a hard place?
Is the United States beholden to China for critical resources in the same way that we are beholden on countries for oil.
I am going to throw out a term that I have u
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Currencies
Peer-to-peer digital currency. Independent of all countries has no central authority, is completely
02/10/2011
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www.bitcoin.org
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. ...
Access your money from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
A great audio de
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Ronald Bogner
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News Link • Science
Renewable Energy Hornet
02-11-2011
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arclein
Taking this information to the lab, the Tel Aviv University team studied weather conditions like temperature, humidity and solar radiation to determine if and how these factors also affected the hornet's behavior, but found that UVB radiation alone
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Agroforestry Revolution in Sahel
02-11-2011
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arclein
SAHEL SOLUTION: Allowing trees to grow and shade fields has helped boost yields for farmers across the Sahel--outlined in blue on this map--a possible adaptation to climate change.
Image: Map by Robert Simmon, based on GIMMS vegetation data and Wo
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Ronald Reagan's Birthday Centennary
02-11-2011
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arclein
Sunday, February 6, marked the birth centennial of Ronald Reagan. As a Reagan biographer, I’m often asked how Reagan was different from his predecessors, Republican and Democrat, and especially in the area of foreign policy. There were many ways, but
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Navy PIPS Model Reports Sea Ice Mass Increase Since 2007
02-11-2011
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arclein
The availability of real-time information on sea ice conditions in ice covered seas has always been important, not only to strategic military operations, but to the economies of those countries that border the Arctic and its marginal seas. Knowledge
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
New:Archived Audio Now Available-Christine Smith on Liberty, Agorism and Voluntary Government
02-10-2011
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C.Smith/Rob McNealy Program
Rob Mcnealy's excellent (1-hour) interview with me has now been archived. You may listen anytime.
http://tinyurl.com/csmithrobmcnealyprog
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