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Date Sent: 2010-10-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 19, 2010 PM edition |
Surprise Move by China on Rates Rattles Markets
Fallujah, U.S.A. - by Will Grigg -- Alaska Reporter with Video Camera Detained by Private Security Guards -- UN Biodiversity Conference Begins With Call To Action -- Green candidates call for end of corporate personhood -- You Can Photograph That Federal Building -- Report Shows Drone Strikes Based on Scant Evidence -- Feds clandestine bailout of the $3 trillion commercial real estate industry
-- The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images -- ‘Foreclosure mill’
gave employees jewelry, cars, houses to forge documents -- Fidel Castro
Thoughtful on Nuclear Weapons -- Mortgages Were Pledged to Multiple
Buyers at the Same Time -- Lie of the Month: Geithner Says US will Not Engage in Devaluing Dollar -- Foreclosure-Gate: And So It Begins.... (Countrywide Breach of PSA) -- MERS Invades Washington DC: A Fascist Housing Market Awaits Us All
AZ: MEET UP - Tarrin Lupo - Wednesday October 20th 2010; Tom Woods Speaking in Phoenix, Wednesday October 20; AZC4L
Freedom Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul November 19-20.
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News Link • China
Surprise Move by China on Rates Rattles Markets
10-19-2010
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NY Times
China’s central bank unexpectedly announced Tuesday that it would raise interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, apparently in the hopes of dampening inflation and cooling off this country’s hot property market. The move had an immedi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Task force probing whether banks broke federal laws during home seizures
10-19-2010
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Washington Post
Federal law enforcement officials are investigating possible criminal violations in connection with the national foreclosure crisis, examining whether financial firms broke federal laws when they filed fraudulent court documents to seize people's hom
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Fallujah, U.S.A. - by Will Grigg
10-19-2010
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Pro Liberate
While commanding a Marine platoon occupying Fallujah, Illario Pantano gunned down 2 unarmed Iraqi men during a search of their vehicle. After perforating the bodies of his victims with more than 60 rounds from his M-16 (which means he reloaded)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Alaska Reporter with Video Camera Detained by Private Security Guards
10-19-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A reporter with a video camera was detained by security guards of a Republican politician in Alaska after the reporter asked him a controversial question. They grabbed the editor of the Alaska Dispatch, handcuffed him, detaining him against his will
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
UN Biodiversity Conference Begins With Call To Action
10-19-2010
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www.redorbit.com
Delegates from the United Nations (UN) met to discuss ways to protect plant and animal life as a 12-day international conference on biodiversity kicked off Monday in Nagoya, Japan.
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News Link • Politics
Green candidates call for end of corporate personhood
10-19-2010
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www.greenchange.org
110 Green Party candidates nationwide are calling for a “Green New Deal” to end the legal doctrine of corporate personhood, which grants corporations constitutional rights that had previously been reserved for people.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Who’s who in the foreclosure scandal: A primer on the players
10-19-2010
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RawStory.com
The unfolding foreclosure scandal just keeps expanding. Scrutiny first fell on the “robo-signers” who rubber-stamped banks’ foreclosure paperwork, but they’re one of the many players who may have contributed to the mess.
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News Link • Government
You Can Photograph That Federal Building
10-19-2010
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lens.blogs.nytimes.com
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Report Shows Drone Strikes Based on Scant Evidence
10-19-2010
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AntiWar.com / Gareth Porter
The report came shortly after publication of a survey of opinion within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas showing overwhelming popular opposition to the drone strikes and majority support for suicide attacks on U.S. forces.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Feds clandestine bailout of the $3 trillion commercial real estate industry
10-19-2010
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MyBudget360.com
The Fed directly buying up questionable mortgages from banks is an indirect form of bailing out CRE. Yet in some instances, the Fed has gone ahead and directly taken on the role as owner for places such as a mall in Oklahoma.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images
10-19-2010
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Salon / Glenn Greenwald
In virtually every way, the War on Drugs is a mirror image of the War on Terror: sustained with the same deceitful propaganda, driven by many of the same motives, prosecuted with similar templates, and destructive in the same ways.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - International
American Men Too Engorged On The NFL to Protest The New World Order
10-19-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
It is a sorry state of affairs to report that the American male population could learn a thing or to about protesting the "New World Order" from the French protestors, but it's true! As the American economy reels NFL ratings are spiking...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
‘Foreclosure mill’ gave employees jewelry, cars, houses to forge documents
10-19-2010
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RawStory.com
According to sworn statements released by the Florida Attorney General's office, one of the state's "foreclosure mills" bribed employees with jewelry, cars and houses to forge and alter documents required by courts conducting foreclosure proceedings.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
U.S. Pushes to Ease Technical Obstacles to Wiretapping
10-18-2010
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NY Times
Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped, federal officials
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
GM Food Minutia From Around The Globe : The Saga Continues
10-16-10
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The PPJ Gazette
With the recent decision to temporarily hold off on GM Salmon production, I thought it might be time again to visit the GM Minutia from around the globe.
Attention Monsanto : You may save the fraction of several hundred thousand dollars paid to Bl
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Archaeology
Cancer in Mummies
10-19-2010
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arclein
During an interview with a UK paper, Professor Michael Zimmerman stated, "'In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases."
Yet the evidence gleaned from mummies and investigations into the ca
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Ellen Brown On The Worlds Biggest Shell Game
10-19-2010
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MaxKeiser.com & YouTube.com
Max Keiser interviews Ellen Brown on Foreclosure-Gate, and she describes how MERS is in fact a shell company with virtually no employees. The interview starts at minute 13:00 into "On The Edge with Max Keiser" for Russia Today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Geothermal Energy From Radioactive Granite
10-19-2010
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arclein
The company intends to pump water to the rocks, where it will heat up before returning to the surface at around 200 °C, and under pressure. The hot water will be run through a heat exchanger to drive a steam turbine, providing 10 MW of electricity t
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robert klein
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News Link • Surveillance
Fidel Castro Thoughtful on Nuclear Weapons
10-19-2010
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arclein
I think "I said verbatim on September 28" that it might be a good idea to make known some of these ideas about what a nuclear weapon is. I have seen images about what critical mass is, and what its use as a weapon represents: that is to employ the en
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robert klein
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Planet Hunters End Glare
10-19-2010
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arclein
t the core of the system is a small piece of glass with a highly complex pattern inscribed into its surface. Called an Apodizing Phase Plate, or APP, the device blocks out the starlight in a very defined way, allowing planets to show up in the image
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 1: The Chains and the Stakes
10-19-2010
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Ritholtz.com
Many of these mortgage originators were fly-by-night shops, shady enterprises that collapsed the moment they hit trouble. And many of them cut corners and one of the corners they may have cut would have been to send the note to the trust.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mortgages Were Pledged to Multiple Buyers at the Same Time
10-19-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/ & Washingtonblog.com
It appears as though many loans and other mortgage-related assets have been double and even triple-pledged to various constituencies
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Lie of the Month: Geithner Says US will Not Engage in Devaluing Dollar
10-19-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
“It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity and competitiveness,” he said. “It is not a viable, feasible strategy and we will not engage in it.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Lake Mead sinks to a new historic low
10-19-2010
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AZcentral.com
Not since it was first filling in 1937 has Lake Mead held so little water. The reservoir's level fell to the historic low shortly before noon on Sunday, eclipsing a previous record from the drought-stricken 1950s.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New "good" bacteria enhanced by particles of nano-silver able to slay spectrum of viruses
10-19-2010
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The Telegraph UK
Scientists have discovered that they can attach tiny studs of silver onto the surface of otherwise harmless bacteria, giving them the ability to destroy viruses.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: And So It Begins.... (Countrywide Breach of PSA)
10-18-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
HOUSTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the holders of over 25% of the Voting Rights in more than $47 billion of Countrywide-issued RMBS sent a Notice of Non-Performance (Notice) to Countrywide Home Loan Servicing, as Master Servicer...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: A National Socialist Housing Market
10-18-2010
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CNBC.com
Discussing whether the banks are headed for disaster with a new round of government intervention, with Barry Ritholtz, Fusion IQ; Chris Whalen, Institutional Risk Analytics and CNBC's Jane Wells.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
MERS Invades Washington DC: A Fascist Housing Market Awaits Us All
10-18-2010
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FireDogLake.com
I’m told that MERS is doing briefings on Capitol Hill for Congressional staffers. This is usually kind of the first round of a pushback campaign.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Infrared Eyetracker Keeps Drivers Awake at a Fraction of the Cost
10-18-2010
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Julie Beck via PopSci.com
German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology have developed an eyetracking device that could soon help keep drowsy drivers alert on the road for a fraction of the cost of existing systems.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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