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Date Sent: 2011-02-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 28, 2011 AM edition |
'Global Credit Warfare': China Preparing for a Treasury Bond Sell-Off?
Foreclosure-Gate: The Falling Number Of Foreclosures Indicate What? -- Paul Craig Roberts: A Government Shutdown Imperils the Power of Congress
-- Plunging Tax Refunds & Declining Tax Withholdings Predict A
Consumption Collapse -- Marc Faber: "I Think We Are All Doomed" -- US Budget Gap Is Top Worry for NABE Economists
-- Chris Hedges: No Other Way Out -- Spreading Activism for Change for
Change -- Anti-Government Protests Break Out In Croatia -- Supreme Court confronts conflict between constitutional rights and protecting children -- "King's Speech" claims best-picture Oscar -- Homeland Security To Scan DNA -- The Phoenix Lights were Flares -- Obama says Kadhafi must ‘leave now’ --
As Shuttle Program Winds Down, Astronauts Weigh A Future With No
Spaceship To Fly -- From NACHOS to MAHEM: Naming The World's Most
Advanced Military Tech -- Austin Activists Outbid Police Guns4groceries program -- Past medical testing on humans revealed -- Self Watering Containers -- How some Transhumans plan to rule the world
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
'Global Credit Warfare': China Preparing for a Treasury Bond Sell-Off?
02-28-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
China may soon call time on Western quantitative easing. More worryingly, the language she is using is far from friendly.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The Falling Number Of Foreclosures Indicate What?
02-28-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
It suggests what we have long argued: that failures to convey loans as required by securitization documents are widespread, if not pervasive. Now that servicers and foreclosure mills are finding that a lot of judges no longer take them at their word.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Paul Craig Roberts: A Government Shutdown Imperils the Power of Congress
02-28-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Bush succeeded in establishing that as a wartime commander-in-chief he had the “inherent power” to disobey the laws against torture, spying on Americans without obtaining warrants, and indefinite detention. In addition, Bush used signing statements..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Plunging Tax Refunds & Declining Tax Withholdings Predict A Consumption Collapse
02-28-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
For the first 13 weeks heading into April 15 (the point by which most refunds have been issued), and find that both average weekly remittance and 2011 cumulative refund issuance is running at a nearly 20% lower run rate than 2010.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Marc Faber: "I Think We Are All Doomed"
02-28-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Eventually the economy will deteriorate, that there will be more money-printing, and then you have inflation, and a poor economy, an extreme form of stagflation, and, eventually, in that situation, countries go to war, and, as a whole...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Gaddafi rant put to music in YouTube video "Zenga Zenga" (Video)
02-28-2011
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The Political Commentator
YouTube video of a Gaddafi rant put to music
Made in Israel and embraced by the Arab world.
From the New York Times (H/T Mish)
"A satirical YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the L
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Budget Gap Is Top Worry for NABE Economists
02-28-2011
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CNBC.com
"Panelists continue to characterize excessive federal indebtedness as their single greatest concern," with state and local government debt the second-biggest worry, the survey said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Chris Hedges: No Other Way Out
02-28-2011
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Truthdig.com
The state seeks to silence anyone who practices moral courage. It does not want the truth heard. It does not want the reality seen. If these forces of war and greed triumph, and we do not, there will be darkness.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
If you think Obama dropped the ball in Libya and the Middle East, what would he do with social unres
02-28-2011
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The Political Commentator
If you thought the Obama response to Libya was painfully slow and painfully impotent, how do you suppose he would deal with a social uprising taking place in China?
The unrest in Libya was days old and increasingly violent before President Obama f
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
War Uber Alles
02-27-2011
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Paul Craig Roberts via PrisonPlanet.com
The United States government cannot get enough of war. With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime falling to a rebelling population, CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at all options from the military side.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Government
Anti-Government Protests Break Out In Croatia
02-27-2011
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RT via PrisonPlanet.com
Croatian police clashed with approximately 15-thousand anti-government protesters who rallied in the capital on Saturday, and state television reported that officers used tear gas to disperse the group. At least 25 people were injured.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court confronts conflict between constitutional rights and protecting children
02-27-2011
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NY Times
In Oregon, a 9-year-old girl was escorted from class to a school conference room, where a child-welfare caseworker and a police officer questioned her about whether her father had touched her inappropriately. After 2 hours of questioning, she finally
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
"King's Speech" claims best-picture Oscar
02-27-2011
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AP
Colin Firth is official Hollywood royalty: He has won the best-actor Academy Award as stammering monarch George VI in "The King's Speech," while Natalie Portman is the best-actress winner as a delusional ballerina in "Black Swan."
"The King's Spee
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security To Scan DNA
02-27-2011
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WILLIAM MATTHEWS via PrisonPlanet.com
The Homeland Security Department this summer plans to begin testing a DNA analyzer that’s small enough to be easily portable and fast enough to return results in less than an hour.
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News Link • Government
The Real Revolution
02-27-2011
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Tony Cartalucci via PrisonPlanet.com
Believe it or not, growing your own food or visiting your local farmers market is more revolutionary and constructive
than burning down your own city and killing security forces.
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Reference Link • Iran
See "Iranium" for free
Hulu.com
"Iranium" is a documentary film that has generated much controversy and explores the Iranian nuclear program as it pertains to strategic threats against the West, and Islamic fundamentalism in Iran.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama says Kadhafi must ‘leave now’: White House
02-27-2011
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The Raw Story
President Barack Obama said Saturday that Libya's leader Moamer Kadhafi needs to "leave now," having lost the legitimacy to rule, a White House statement said.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Military
From NACHOS to MAHEM: Naming The World's Most Advanced Military Tech
02-27-2011
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Rebecca Boyle
What do you call an armor-penetrating munition? MAHEM. A smokescreen that instantly closes around a tank? DRAPES. A robot that scavenges and feeds itself? EATR, of course.
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News Link • Activism
Austin Activists Outbid Police Guns4groceries program
02-26-2011
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Deadlinelive.info
Austin activists showed up to a police gun buyback event, and buy guns from those getting ready to turn them in to the cops as part of a guns4groceries event for more than the amount of the gift cards they would have gotten.
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G Cone
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Past medical testing on humans revealed
02-27-2011
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AP
U.S. government doctors thought it fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients, squirting pandemic flu virus up prisoner's noses and injecting cancer cells into chronically
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • How To
Self Watering Containers
02-27-2011
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SMCC
While commercially made self watering containers such as the Earthbox® are available, it’s possible to build your own with these detailed instructions.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
How some Transhumans plan to rule the world
02-27-2011
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Terrence Aym
Earth: 2100. The world is ruled by superhumans with IQs on the high side of 1,000. From their lofty towers they manage the swarming masses. Globs of lower humans controlled from birth to death…at least those that are allowed to live. The sub-humans w
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