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Date Sent: 2012-02-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 17, 2012 |
BERNANKE: Renting Might Be The Path Out Of Foreclosure -- Markets Are Diving In Europe
Does the UN Plan Full-Spectrum Domination? -- The Latest Obamacare
Overreach -- Gold Standard Good? ... or Another Power Elite Meme? --
Lawyer With Strong Ties to GOP Turns Up Dead at Construction Site --
This Is Paul Krugman's Massive Presentation On The Welfare State And The
US Economy -- John Paulson Says Greece May Soon Default And The Shock Might Be Worse Than The Lehman Bankruptcy -- Why America Is Unlike The Collapsing Roman Empire -- Markets Swing
Higher After Reports That The ECB Will Help Greece Close Funding Gaps -- China Could Soon Overtake India As The Biggest Gold Market In The
World -- CNN Cancels March 1 Debate After Candidates Decline -- Without A
Marshall Plan For Greece, There’s No Hope -- Doctors Now ‘Firing’ Patients Who Reject Vaccination -- Oklahoma Senate Passes Controversial "Personhood" Bill -- Ron Paul Is Secretly Taking Over The GOP . . . And It's Driving People Insane -- Alaska Bill Would Criminalize Invasive TSA Pat Downs
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News Link • Housing
BERNANKE: Renting Might Be The Path Out Of Foreclosure
02-16-2012
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Joe Mont, The Street
During a speech this month before the National Association of Homebuilders, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke shared his views on ways to escape the nation's foreclosure crisis.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Markets Swing Higher After Reports That The ECB Will Help Greece Close Funding Gaps
02-16-2012
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Simone Foxman
Rumors about the European Central Bank exchanging holdings of Greek bonds with Greece for less than face value are back today.
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Reported by:
Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Official Trailer (HD)
02-16-2012
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youtube (h/t The Agitator)
Yes, Virginia, there really is some crazy shit out there. Are you going to Bogart that joint all night or pass it along?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Positive News
Interracial Marriages in U.S. Reach a Record
02-16-2012
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By MIRIAM JORDAN
Marriage across racial and ethnic lines has reached a new high in the U.S. amid fading social taboos in an ever more diverse society.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • United Nations
Does the UN Plan Full-Spectrum Domination?
02-16-2012
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by Staff Report
Bank Ki-moon
United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon and his top deputies gathered in secret last year to chart the future course of humanity through "sustainable development."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Philosophy: Political
The Personal Is the Economic
02-16-2012
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by Lew Rockwell
Feminist Carol Hanisch is famous for opposing the Miss America contest in the 1960s. She is also the person who in 1968 coined the phrase "the personal is the political." Her essay on the topic denounced the idea that women's liberation can come abou
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
The Latest Obamacare Overreach
02-16-2012
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by Ron Paul
Many religious conservatives understandably are upset with the latest Obamacare mandate, which will require religious employers (including Catholic employers) to provide birth control to workers receiving healthcare benefits.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold Standard Good? ... or Another Power Elite Meme?
02-16-2012
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by Staff Report
Let's return to the gold standard ... It might be said that a simpler approach than Mr. Lehrman's might be the most likely way to get back to a gold standard.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
But Syriasly, Folks
02-16-2012
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Russ Baker
An awful long time has elapsed since the media began frenetically covering the uprising in Syria"long enough for more truth to have emerged by now.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Lawyer With Strong Ties to GOP Turns Up Dead at Construction Site
02-16-2012
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Roger Shuler
An Alabama lawyer with roundabout connections to our Legal Schnauzer story was found dead at a Shelby County construction site late yesterday morning.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iran
New Weasel Word on Iran Nukes
02-16-2012
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Robert Parry
What can one say when the Washington Post's neoconservative editorial writers more correctly describe the U.S. and Israeli assessments on Iran's nuclear program than does a news story in the New York Times?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Voting: Voter Information
All delegates that will be going to a state/county convention must watch this
02-16-2012
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ralph hornsby
The GOP refuse to name any Paul delegates and totally ignore Robert's Rules.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
So I was elected a delegate in MN What can I expect next?
02-16-2012
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Star-Spangled-M
I was the only person who showed up in my small Minnesota township to vote.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Is Paul Krugman's Massive Presentation On The Welfare State And The US Economy
02-16-2012
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Simone Foxman
There are few economists who have written as extensively or as persuasively about income inequality and the welfare state as Paul Krugman.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Art
The 25 Best Jeremy Lin Signs We've Seen So Far
02-16-2012
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Cork Gaines
Maybe the strangest phenomenon of the Jeremy Lin story is the explosion of puns created based on his name.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
John Paulson Says Greece May Soon Default And The Shock Might Be Worse Than The Lehman Bankruptcy
02-16-2012
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Julia La Roche
Hedge fund titan John Paulson is predicting that Greece may default by the end of next month causing the euro to break up, according to Bloomberg News.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Future Predictions
Why America Is Unlike The Collapsing Roman Empire
02-16-2012
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Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism
Time to put on my myth busting cap again. This time, it looks like the USA is turning into Rome. But probably not.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Hollywood's Top 10 Greatest Bromances
02-16-2012
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Aly Weisman
Hot off the heels of Valentine's Day, we're celebrating another kind of romance: Bromance.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hollywoods-top-10-biggest-bromances-2012-2#ixzz1mabK72zu
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
The Real Reason The Rest of Europe Is Just Torturing Greece Now
02-16-2012
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Joe Weisenthal
The latest buzz from Europe is that in order for Greece to get a bailout, the leader of the super-right LAOS party will need to sign a letter saying he endorses the latest reform plan.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The long arm of Uncle Sam got longer
02-16-2012
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www.sovereignman.com
This one’s hot off the presses. Just yesterday, our friends at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a press release on its latest ruling related to foreign ‘money service businesses (MSBs).’
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Media: Television
Colbert Report Halted Because of Family Emergency
02-16-2012
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The Slatest
The Wall Street Journal reports that the reason production of the Colbert Report was unexpectedly suspended this week was an emergency in Stephen Colbert's family.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China Could Soon Overtake India As The Biggest Gold Market In The World
02-16-2012
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AP
China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest gold market this year as rising incomes fuel demand for the precious metal and a weak rupee diminishes Indian purchases, an industry group said Thursday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
CNN Cancels March 1 Debate After Candidates Decline
02-16-2012
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www.nationaljournal.com
"Mitt Romney and Ron Paul told the Georgia Republican Party, Ohio Republican Party, and CNN Thursday that they will not participate in the March 1 Republican presidential primary debate," CNN said in a statement.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Without A Marshall Plan For Greece, There’s No Hope
02-16-2012
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ForexCrunch
Back in the hot days of July 2011, European leaders demanded austerity from Greece.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
SocGen: Here's Where The World Is Heading
02-16-2012
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Mamta Badkar
The persistent European debt crisis, the messy U.S. fiscal situation, and the slowing Chinese economy all continue to pose threats to the global economy in 2012
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Family
Oklahoma Senate Passes Controversial "Personhood" Bill
02-16-2012
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The Slatest
The Sooner State joins Virginia as the latest battlegrounds in the abortion fight.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Texas Is Awesome And These Charts Show Why
02-16-2012
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Simone Foxman
"Don't mess with Texas," warn some Texans.
You definitely can't mess with the strength of its economy.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Wait, Is Italy Slipping Again?
02-16-2012
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Joe Weisenthal
A quick look at 10-year Italian yields reveals... they've stopped improving. In fact, rather than moving towards 5%, they're going back to 6%.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Forget Greece, Traders Are Worried About Something That Could Send Us Back To The Middle Ages
02-16-2012
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ART CASHIN
A Greek default has been on everyone's minds lately. But the traders Cashin has talked to think that it's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
County Attorney asks FBI to investigate Quartzsite
02-16-2012
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www.parkerliveonline.com
“La Paz County Attorney Sam Vederman has asked the FBI to investigate ‘potential systemic corruption’ involving municipal leaders.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • TERRORISM
Who Carried Out the Terrorist Car Bombings in India, Thailand and Georgia? Iran … Or Someone Else?
02-16-2012
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Washingtons Blog
Car bomb attacks which occurred this week in India, Georgia and Thailand are being blamed on Iran by the U.S., Israel and their allies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Doctors Now ‘Firing’ Patients Who Reject Vaccination
02-16-2012
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Mike Barrett
Thursday, February 16, 2012
For many years government and health officials have been trying to push vaccination on the people. While childhood vaccine exemption rateshave been increasing, we have been seeing an overall increase in the amount of p
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
How the US Shale Boom Will Change the World
02-16-2012
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Oilprice.com
A funny thing is happening on the way to the clean energy future"reality is setting in.
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Staffoilpricedotcom Erik
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Alaska Bill Would Criminalize Invasive TSA Pat Downs
02-16-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson
Rep. Sharon Cissna’s legislation would also ban body scanners that produce naked images
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Money Masters - the Rothschild mafia controlled the Fed and the World Central Banks
02-16-2012
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YOUTUBE.com
Rothschild mafia John Kennedy Woodrow Wilson George Washington Andrew Jackson Franklin Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln Bank of England US Federal Reserve 1996 1913 full documentary
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Robert Lee
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Treaties from hell
02-15-2012
Becky Fenger
Now that Dick Morris has switched sides from his days with President Bill Clinton, it would behoove us to listen to a warning he is issuing about a handful of treaties President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are negotiating, or
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