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Date Sent: 2010-12-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, December 16, 2010 PM Edition |
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange freed -- Approval of Internet traffic rules likely
Gold Prices and Panic -- Former British defense secretary says it’s time to legalize, regulate drugs -- After Dozens of Deaths, Drop-Side Cribs Outlawed -- IRS audits jump by 11%; wealthiest targeted
-- The Genocide of the American Mind -- The Home Equity Catastrophe:
Owner’s Equity in Real Estate Down 55.7% -- WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt
Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results -- CoreLogic: House Prices
declined 1.9% in October -- Lindsey Williams: Crude Oil Price Targeted
for $150-200 per Barrel in 2011 -- Russia Today: Video of The Rioting
In Greece -- Pork Finds A Way: F-35 Funding Obama Threatened To Veto Now In Budget Bill That Pentagon Endorses
-- As Mortgage Rates Go Parabolic, Home Prices Will Plumb The Depths --
Festivus For The Rest Of Us: 893,000 Added To The Unemployments Rolls -- CFTC admits will miss deadline on position limits (To limit how much Silver you can buy) --
How Many American CIA Agents Does It Take to Kidnap One Egyptian Imam?
-- Why the GOP Fears Sarah Palin -- Foreclosure-Gate: Foreclosure
Activity Plunges By Record Amount -- A Home Safety Net With
McMansion-Size Holes: Taking The Obama Cure -- Canadian Government Advances Codex Alimentarius with New Laws --
Totally Busted: The Truth About Goldman's Bailout by the Fed -- It's
Only A Scratch: Phoenix Home Prices Fell 7 Percent in 12 Months
AZ: Christmas Party on
the Magic Bus tonight
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange freed (court rejects appeal)
12/15/2010
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the real news now
Early this morning , Justice Ouseley (the justice in charge of the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's court case) upheld the decision to grant Julian Assange bail, according to Sky News. Spectators claim cheers commenced outside the courtroom when t
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News Link • Internet
Approval of Internet traffic rules likely-analysts
12-16-2010
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www.reuters.com
Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Currencies
Year of bullying, bluff and bailouts leaves euro fighting for its life
12-16-2010
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www.guardian.co.uk
Merkel will call the shots at tomorrow's EU summit â€" but will she kill or cure the patient?
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Drug War
Former British defense secretary says it’s time to legalize, regulate drugs
12-16-2010
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RawStory.com
A former British defense secretary and drugs minister called Thursday for a "grown-up debate" on drug legalization and said that the country's war on drugs has been "nothing short of a disaster."
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks release: Timeline of the key WikiLeaks revelations
12-16-2010
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telegraph.co.uk
From Sarah Palin's email account to the Apache helicopter attack on journalists, we look at the key WikiLeaks revelations.
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Freedoms Phoenix Reader
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News Link • Domestic Policy
After Dozens of Deaths, Drop-Side Cribs Outlawed
12-16-2010
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AP
It's the end of the traditional crib that has cradled millions of babies for generations.
The government outlawed drop-side cribs after the deaths of more than 30 infants and toddlers in the past decade and millions of recalls. It's the end of the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS audits jump by 11%; wealthiest targeted
12-16-2010
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AP
The Internal Revenue Service is making it a bit riskier to cheat on your taxes.
The tax agency increased the number of returns it audited by nearly 11 percent this year, statistics released Wednesday show. Wealthy taxpayers and big businesses were
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
The Genocide of the American Mind
12-16-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
"...the family is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health, and hence should be weakened..." World Federation for Mental Health
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
The Home Equity Catastrophe: Owner’s Equity in Real Estate Down 55.7%
12-16-2010
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Ritholtz.com
These two charts paint a devastating picture of the US housing market.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iraq
WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq â€" With Surprising Results
12-16-2010
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Wired.com
Documents released by Wikileaks reveal WMD in Iraq after war uncovered by U.S. troops that include a number of chemical weapons caches that Iraqi insurgents may have used to make their own arsenals.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Housing
CoreLogic: House Prices declined 1.9% in October
12-16-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
CoreLogic ... today released today released its October Home Price Index (HPI) which shows that home prices in the U.S. declined for the third month in a row.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Lindsey Williams: Crude Oil Price Targeted for $150-200 per Barrel in 2011
12-16-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Lindsey Williams told Alex that he’d learned recently from two of this longtime friends, both retired top executives of major oil producers, that the price of crude oil, now rising again, is slated to move to $150-200 per barrel soon.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia Today: Video of The Rioting In Greece
12-16-2010
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YouTube.com
The Main Stream Media will do it's best to keep you in a deep, deep slumber, but it is time to wake up children.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Waste
Pork Finds A Way: F-35 Funding Obama Threatened To Veto Now In Budget Bill That Pentagon Endorses
12-15-2010
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Sam Stein
The omnibus spending bill includes $450 million to keep the alternate-engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- a defiance, as has been noted, of the White House's and Pentagon's long-standing objectives.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Housing
As Mortgage Rates Go Parabolic, Home Prices Will Plumb The Depths
12-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
As a result, ceteris paribus, home prices will have to decline by about 10% to compensate for the pick up in rates in just the last month.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CFTC admits will miss deadline on position limits (To limit how much Silver you can buy)
12-16-2010
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Reuters
(Reuters) - The futures regulator acknowledged on Wednesday it will miss the January target for issuing a final rule on limiting the amount of contracts a trader can control in agricultural, energy and metals markets.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Aspirin Mechanism
12-16-2010
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arclein
troke to different doses of aspirin for 12 weeks. All doses produced highly significant beneficial effects on two important and well documented markers of nitric oxide formation.
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robert klein
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News Link • Anthropology
Primate Resilience
12-16-2010
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arclein
"Wild animals deal with a world that's unpredictable from year to year," said study lead author Bill Morris, a biologist at Duke University. "The weather can change a lot; there can be years with plenty of food and years of famine," he explain
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Why the GOP Fears Sarah Palin
12-16-2010
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arclein
admap for America’s Future, addresses the first issue most directly and parts of the second issue indirectly (for example, his proposals to change Obamacare). I think his plan is a good plan. It is good primarily because it exists at all. If it were
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Foreclosure Activity Plunges By Record Amount
12-16-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Foreclosure Activity Plunges By Record Amount In November As Fraud Forces Banks To Halt Evictions
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
A Home Safety Net With McMansion-Size Holes: Taking The Obama Cure
12-16-2010
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NYPost.com
The White House plan to save as many as 13 million cash-strapped families from losing their homes in foreclosure was a huge flop -- so flawed it may have made the housing crisis even worse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Canadian Government Advances Codex Alimentarius with New Laws
12-16-2010
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Davidicke.com/
'This evening, December 13, 2010, a piece of draconian legislation was passed into law by the Canadian senate. I refer to Bill C36, which is just one piece in the wider global plan called Codex Alimentarius.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Totally Busted: The Truth About Goldman's Bailout by the Fed
12-16-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Eric Fry has put together the pieces, searched the articles and has done the timeline that show's how the Fed shoveled money into the coffers of Goldman Sachs. Even to help Goldman pay off its TARP debt.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
It's Only A Scratch: Phoenix Home Prices Fell 7 Percent in 12 Months
12-16-2010
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AZcentral.com
November prices fell 7 percent from November 2009, to $122,300, according to the Arizona State University-Repeat Sales Index produced by ASU real-estate professor Karl Guntermann.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden: The U.S. Is Free Falling Into Bankruptcy
12-16-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
The best the Fed could then hope for to counteract the deflationary outcome is to generate hyperinflation through a collapse in the reserve currency. And since this is far more palatable to the Fed, we believe that one way or another...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Dirty Harry's Crybaby Temper Tantrum - What Is It This Time?
12162010
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www.drscoundrels.com
Isn't it time to grow up and be the boxer you claim to have been when you were younger? Isn't it time to really just reach down and find some sort of coherent ability to just discuss things truthfully? Isn't it time to realize that people are waki
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Conspiracies
Attorney: Swedish Case is a "Holding Charge" to Get Julian Assange Extradited to U.S. (vid
10/15/10
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Democracy Now!
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in a London prison after Swedish authorities challenged the court’s decision to release him on bail with conditions. Assange’s attorney Mark Stephens joins us to discuss his possible extradition to Sweden for
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Top scientists: Fatal flaws in NASA study of arsenic-based life
12-16-2010
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Terrence Aym
Did NASA blow it? NASA rushed to tell the world about a new lifeform discovered right here on Earth. The strange new life, found in the Mono Lake region of California, seemed to be a unique arsenic-based carbon life instead of the phosphorous based c
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Terrence Aym
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