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Date Sent: 2011-03-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 1, 2011 PM edition |
Financial terrorism suspected in economic crash--Small nuclear war could reverse 'global warming'
US tightens military grip on Gaddafi: Invasion set? -- Saudi Arabia sends tanks to riot-hit Bahrain -- Yikes! Guess who was named dangerous 'patriot' group -- Bernie Madoff: ‘The whole government is a Ponzi scheme’ -- QE3? Top Federal Reserve Officials Think More Quantitative Easing Is Necessary -- Former Reagan official: If the law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange -- Caught on tape: Cops talk about stealing man’s property over bag of weed -- Reverse Raid on the Crimex - Silver Targets $37 OZ -- Child Brain Scans To Pick Out Future Criminals -- Drones Set to Invade National, State Parks -- JPMorgan Fighting 10,000 Lawsuits -- Bernanke: Surge in Oil Prices Not Hurting US Economy -- Ron Paul Winner of the 2011 American Policy Summit (video)
-- Pentagon Propaganda: Financial Terrorists, Not Bankers Will Destroy
Economy -- Comex Gold Higher, at 2-Month High, While Silver Hits
31-Year High -- Building Big Brother: DHS to gain real-time access to DoD biometrics
-- Something Very Weird Is Happening In The Middle East Markets --
Dollar Losing Safe Haven Appeal -- Propaganda: Personal Income Is At A
Record, And Americans Are Returning To Work -- Saudi Market Is Off 7%
-- Paul Krugman with some Ivory Tower advice: If they bring a knife, we
bring a gun (Video) -- Obstructing and Delaying Aristide's Return --
Unverified Misreporting on Libya -- Phoenix Tea Party Ron Paul on KFNX -- FireFighter Erik Lawyer Slams NIST And The 9/11 "Investigation"
AZ: Republic
For Arizona Presents: Clyde
Cleveland today
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Sign
Wave for Peace on the Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq
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News Link • TERRORISM
Financial terrorism suspected in 2008 economic crash
03-01-2011
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Washington Times
Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the 2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
NASA: Small nuclear war could reverse 'global warming'
03-01-2011
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Terrence Aym
According to U.S. computer models a regional, limited nuclear war could set-off "unprecedented" worldwide cooling. Rainfall too might be affected. This is the latest climate theory that owes much to the original promoter of nuclear winter, Dr. Carl
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Military
US tightens military grip on Gaddafi: Invasion set?
03-01-2011
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The Guardian
The west was edging towards a possible military confrontation with Gaddafi's regime, as the US deployed naval and air force units around Libya, and David Cameron ordered contingency plans for Britain to help enforce a no-fly zone.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Saudi Arabia sends tanks to riot-hit Bahrain
03-01-2011
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Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each heading towar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Yikes! Guess who was named dangerous 'patriot' group
03-01-2011
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World Net Daily
Southern Poverty Law Center publishes 'antigovernment, conspiracy-minded' list.
A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center on "hate groups" warns of the explosive growth in 2010 of extremist, "patriot" organizations, among them the Cons
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government
Bernie Madoff: ‘The whole government is a Ponzi scheme’
03-01-2011
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Rawstory
If there's one person who knows a Ponzi scheme, it's Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the largest one in history. Locked away in prison, he claims it wasn't just him, or even just the financial sector. Madoff says the entire US government is a Ponzi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
QE3? Top Federal Reserve Officials Think More Quantitative Easing Is Necessary
03-01-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
The truth is that when the rest of the world completely loses faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries the dominoes are going to start to fall. Eventually we are going to see a financial panic that is going to make 2008 look like a picnic...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
They're playing games, literally, in the Justice Department
03-01-2011
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Washington Examiner
You're looking for unnecessary spending to cut from the federal budget. Well, one piece of low-hanging fruit ripe for picking is the bloated budget of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. It's something to discuss with Attorney General Eri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Former Reagan official: If the law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange
03-01-2011
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Rawstory
Former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts said there is “a concerted effort to nail him"to shut Assange up… If the legal attempt fails, he’ll simply be assassinated by a CIA assassination team. It’s common practice for the CIA to do th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Billions in Bloat Uncovered in Beltway
03-01-2011
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Wall Street Journal
The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development.
These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Caught on tape: Cops talk about stealing man’s property over bag of weed
03-01-2011
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Rawstory
While talking about what they should do, officers began to eye the expensive recording equipment around Simpson's home, ultimately deciding that they could very well take everything if they wanted thanks to the drugs they'd found.
What they didn't
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Nullification, a Different Way to Tell the Feds, “Stuff Obamacare”
03-01-2011
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http://drscoundrels.com
Nullification is an old Jeffersonian concept that may allow the states feeling oppressed by the feds to tell them to "stuff Obamacare."
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James Hyde
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Department Of Truth: ISM Employment Index Prints At Highest Since 1973
03-01-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The data is now so unbelievably ridiculous that the Employment Index came at 64.5, the highest since 1973! And this as the country sees roughly 17% in U-6 underemployment, and the number of Americans on food stamps, over 43.6 million...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Reverse Raid on the Crimex - Silver Targets $37 OZ
03-01-2011
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Greg Maurer, SilverBearCafe.com
What we may be witnessing in the Silver market is a "reverse" raid on the CRIMEX. What appears to be a massive short squeeze on our criminal bankers may in fact be a coordinated effort by a disgruntled group of EX-JP Morgan traders, and their hedge
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Surveillance
Child Brain Scans To Pick Out Future Criminals
03-01-2011
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Telegraph.co.uk/news + BlackListedNews.com
The theories were put forward by two leading criminologists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Drones Set to Invade National, State Parks
03-01-2011
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Wired.com/
Drones aren’t just buzzing over the Adirondacks. The proposal to begin training missions there is part of a bigger push to build a drone infrastructure for flying missions throughout the United States. So new drone bases are being built.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Archaeology
Leviathan Fossil Discovered
03-01-2011
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arclein
Long thought to be a myth, the Leviathan has been found. The fossil is well-preserved and is a testament in living stone to the terrors of the seas that early sailors faced.
The 12 million-year-old creature, more than 55 feet long, has huge teeth
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JPMorgan Fighting 10,000 Lawsuits
02-28-2011
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Lauren Tara, Thestreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- JPMorgan Chase (JPM_) is a defendant in more than 10,000 legal proceedings and may be $4.5 billion short of reserves needed to cover those costs in a worst-case scenario, the firm said in a regulatory filing on Monday.
The
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Archaeology
Ancient Sea Ports on Suncoast
03-01-2011
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arclein
A Central Florida man believes he has discovered what's left of a highly advanced ancient civilization by using some new technology, and says some of the evidence is right here on the Suncoast.
"Looking further, I begin to find the real beauty i
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Global Phosphorous Threshold
03-01-2011
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arclein
Recalculating the global use of phosphorous, a fertilizer linchpin of modern agriculture, a team of researchers warns that the world's stocks may soon be in short supply and that overuse in the industrialized world has become a leading cause of the
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke: Surge in Oil Prices Not Hurting US Economy
03-01-2011
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CNBC.com
The recent surge in oil prices is unlikely to have a big impact on the U.S. economy, but could lead to weaker growth and higher inflation if sustained, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Sea Serpents
03-01-2011
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arclein
on May 9, 1830 by the crew of the Rob Roy: a British Royal Navy ship that was homeward bound after a lengthy sea-journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
As the ship sailed by the island of St. Helena, something remarkable occurred, as the R
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
The Day FEE Was Called before Congress
03-01-2011
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The Freeman / David Beito
Since 1933, many prominent New Deal and later Fair Deal Democrats had relied on the methods of guilt by association, character smears, and intimidation to attack conservative and libertarian critics of the growing federal bureaucracy.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Winner of the 2011 American Policy Summit (video)
03-01-2011
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C4LAZ at Blip.tv via Michael Maresco on Twitter!
MARCH FORTH FOR RON PAUL ad at the end - this Friday March 4th at 4:30 p.m. - Central and Indian School Road - SignWave, March (1 mile South), and Rally! RUN RON, RUN!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Pentagon Propaganda: Financial Terrorists, Not Bankers Will Destroy Economy
03-01-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This Pentagon-sponsored report claims financial terrorists have completed two of three steps to destroy the US economy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years
03-01-2011
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National Geographic
After a regional nuclear war, average global temperatures would drop by 2.25 degrees F (1.25 degrees C) for two to three years afterward, the models suggest.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Humor
Bad day? Need a laugh? This baby will put a smile on your face! (Video)
03-01-2011
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The Political Commentator
If this baby can't make you smile, maybe your smile is broken!
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Military
…To The Shores Of Tripoli
03-01-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The bottom line is: the US is going to resort to military action in Libya. The size and scope of the operations is yet to be determined. You only have to look at the building up of assets in the region to realize that the Hammer is being loaded...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
THIS is What the Unions are all About! SHAME on THEM!!
03-01-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Long time readers of DRScoundrels will remember some posts by our very good friend Kayte of sECULAR sTUPIDEST. sECULARsTUPIDEST.com is an extremely creative group that started out with terrific conservative bumper stickers and has expanded now int
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Homeland Security
Building Big Brother: DHS to gain real-time access to DoD biometrics
03-01-2011
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FederalNewsRadio.com
"My database is very rich with 70 million bad guys," he said. "But we don't own those records. They're owned by the states, by the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across this country. They submit them to us and allow us to use them, we hold them...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Something Very Weird Is Happening In The Middle East Markets
03-01-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
This chart from Nomura shows that up until recently CDS spreads and the price of oil were pretty tightly correlated across the Middle East. It makes sense. Higher oil equals more government revenue, etc.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar Losing Safe Haven Appeal
03-01-2011
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CNBC.com
Long seen as a place of safety in times of turmoil, the dollar may be losing its haven appeal.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Propaganda: Personal Income Is At A Record, And Americans Are Returning To Work
03-01-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
It's Official: Personal Income Is At A Record, And Americans Are Returning To Work
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Saudi Market Is Off 7%
03-01-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Pro-democracy protests in Bahrain have shown no sign of decline after almost two weeks. The protesters are demanding the resignation of the government, constitutional reforms and the king s abdication.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Paul Krugman with some Ivory Tower advice: If they bring a knife, we bring a gun (Video)
03-01-2011
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The Political Commentator
That was actually Obama but judging from the quote below I suppose it could have been Paul Krugman as well
I am a state university educated man having earned an undergraduate degree in economics and an MBA in finance in the New York SUNY system.
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Michael Haltman
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Feature Article • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix Tea Party Ron Paul on KFNX
Thomas Costanzo
Phoenix Tea Party Ron Paul the Key note speaker is being interviewed on KFNX by Steve Kates. Ron Paul states that a large majority of the elites in Washington have no idea how bad it is for the the people out there. They just continue to spin their w
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix PD: Kidnapping statistics were wrong
02-28-2011
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ABC News
The inaccurate numbers opened Phoenix police to a federal probe. The Dept.of Justice Office of Inspector General is auditing the police department's statistics to determine if inflated statistics were used to obtain millions of dollars in federal gra
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