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Date Sent: 2011-01-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 13, 2011 AM edition |
Sovereign default remains top 2011 risk for WEF -- 4409: Jared Loughner = Mini 9/11?
GM Stock Sale May Trim Taxpayer Recovery -- Detained American Teen Says F.B.I. Pressed Him -- Lebanese government collapses as Hezbollah resigns -- Court reviews when police may enter someone's home without warrant -- An open letter to those who grieve Saturday's massacre -- Hamas leader says Nazi genocide was "a lie" -- Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve -- Experts suspect military testing behind mass bird and fish deaths -- Julian Heicklen's Progress Report: 2011-01-12 --
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention -- Stave off
Globalism: Reinvigorate Constitutional Principles -- ACORN leader
avoids prison for voter fraud conspiracy -- A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning -- Illinois Gov. promises to quickly sign 66% tax hike -- Jack McLamb - Police & Military Against the New World Order -- New Illinois State Motto : Nice Place to Visit – Can’t Afford To Live There. -- Don't Argue With Meredith Whitney: The Muni Massacre Is Back! -- WikiLeaks' Assange: China is our real enemy -- California's Brown proposes "painful" budget cuts -- Housing prices to hit bottom this spring: Freddie Mac economist -- How The Fed Spent $2 Trillion And In Exchange We Got 650,000 Temp Jobs -- America's gun obsession - Adam Kokesh on Washington DC's Russia Today -- Mutating swine flu virus might render vaccine useless
AZ: PHX Objectivists:
Lecture on
"Postmodernism"
tonight, 1/13/2011
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News Link • Economy - International
Sovereign default remains top 2011 risk for WEF
01-12-2011
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Reuters
The risk that parlous government finances will trigger sovereign debt defaults remains one of the biggest threats facing the world in 2011, according to the World Economic Forum.
Punishing levels of public debt built up to counter the financial c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
GM Stock Sale May Trim Taxpayer Recovery
01-12-2011
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AP
By selling a block of its shares in General Motors Co. for $33 each " a price far below the "break-even" point " the government sharply reduced the chances of taxpayers fully recovering their $50 billion investment in the auto giant, a new report fro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Detained American Teen Says F.B.I. Pressed Him
01-12-2011
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NY Times
An American teenager detained in Kuwait said he underwent a heated interrogation by F.B.I. agents for several hours on Wednesday, in a case that has renewed debate over the Obama administration’s expansion of the no-fly list after the attempted bombi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Lebanese government collapses as Hezbollah resigns
01-12-2011
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Washington Post
Lebanon's government collapsed Wednesday, throwing the country into its biggest crisis since 2008 and marking a major setback for U.S. efforts to ensure stability in the combustible nation and region.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Court reviews when police may enter someone's home without warrant
01-12-2011
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Washington Post
Smelling the drug, the officers banged loudly on King's apartment door and identified themselves as police. The officers said they heard a noise and feared evidence was being destroyed. They kicked down the door and found King, two friends, some drug
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Hamas leader says Nazi genocide was "a lie"
01-12-2011
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Yahoo! News
A senior Hamas leader on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out "countless holocausts" against the Palestinians while saying the Nazi genocide was a "lie."
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve
01-12-2011
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www.batr.org
The Patriot-Liberty movement has railed against the Federal Reserve for decades. Inexorably attached to the abolishment of the private banking monopoly, the entire political career of Ron Paul is an inspiration for any citizen who values liberty and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Experts suspect military testing behind mass bird and fish deaths
01-09-2011
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Terrence Aym
Yet another weapons technology has been under development for some decades. Scalar technology"invented by the genius Nikola Tesla early in the 20th Century"has the potential to turn the environment itself into a weapon and tune its deadly properties
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Julian Heicklen's Progress Report: 2011-01-12
01-12-2011
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Tyranny Fighters
On January 11, 2011, I was notified by summons that I have been criminally charged with jury tampering. The moment of truth has arrived. My response to the court is given at the end of this E-mail. The dance begins. Finally we will have the opportuni
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Study: Obesity shrivels the brain
01-12-2011
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Terrence Aym
New research published in Brain Research Bulletin by Dr. Antonio Convit a medical researcher at the New York University School of Medicine focused on obesity and why type 2 diabetes is so often linked to impairment of cognitive brain functioning. Tak
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Torture
The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention
01-12-2011
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Glenn Greenwald
Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - International
Stave off Globalism: Reinvigorate Constitutional Principles
01-12-11
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The PPJ Gazette
America was founded on certain principles: those of individual liberty and responsibility, a small federal government, and sovereign states that would protect their citizens’ unalienable rights. Over time many Americans got so involved in living the
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
ACORN leader avoids prison for voter fraud conspiracy
01-12-2011
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The Daily Caller
This isn’t the first time Busefink was involved in shady electoral dealings. Even while under indictment in Nevada she ran the 2010 national voter drive for Project Vote, which was President Obama’s employer in 1992. Project Vote and ACORN have long
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
01-12-2011
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http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info
[from someone who know THIS is HARD TIME] ED PFC Manning is currently being held in maximum custody. Since arriving at the Quantico Confinement Facility in July of 2010, he has been held under Prevention of Injury (POI) watch.
His cell is approxim
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Politics
The Debt Ceiling : 71 Days
01-12-11
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The PPJ Gazette
At the end of the month or year, many of us must look at our individual budgets and sigh. Again due to rising food, fuel, tax increases, or just the general cost of surviving we must “create” more money. We comb through the tangible assets we have an
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • TAXES: State
Illinois Gov. promises to quickly sign 66% tax hike
01-12-2011
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AP
Illinois Gov. Quinn defended a massive increase in state income taxes passed by lawmakers and promised to quickly sign the measure to help the state's ailing finances. Corporate taxes also will rise, but Quinn rejected it would decimate businesses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
New Illinois State Motto : Nice Place to Visit " Can’t Afford To Live There.
01-12-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Illinois Legislature Votes To Increase Income Tax By 66% : SB 2505
Instead of the proposed 75% Income Tax increase and $1 on a pack of smokes " Illinois Lawmakers have graciously assented to a 66% Tax Increase while allowing the residents of Illin
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Don't Argue With Meredith Whitney: The Muni Massacre Is Back!
01-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Meredith Whitney stated earlier today that with every passing day, more information comes out that proves her point, and that by June of 2011 it will start to really hit the fan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
WikiLeaks' Assange: China is our real enemy
01-12-2011
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Reuters
China is the worst state offender in terms of censorship but WikiLeaks is getting past its attempts to restrict access, the website's founder Julian Assange said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Assange, whose website has angered and embar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
California's Brown proposes "painful" budget cuts
01-12-2011
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Reuters
California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a budget on Monday that included "painful" cuts to state worker pay and social services and a plan to extend tax increases as the most populous U.S. state struggles to close a $25.4 billion deficit.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Housing prices to hit bottom this spring: Freddie Mac economist
01-12-2011
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Reuters
US housing prices overall are expected to hit bottom by spring 2011 and begin a gradual rise in 2012, Frank Nothaft, chief economist and vice president of housing lender Freddie Mac said. "I do think we'll see these housing prices bottom out, maybe b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
How The Fed Spent $2 Trillion And In Exchange We Got 650,000 Temp Jobs
01-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
In other words, of the 1.1 million private jobs gained in the last year, 650,000 or 60% are jobs that have absolutely no real wealth creation capacity, nor do they provide any real benefits.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Anthropology
Paul Craig Roberts: A Brief for Animals
01-12-2011
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CounterPunch.org
Humans who fire-bomb civilian cities, drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations, act out ideological hatreds taught to them by sociopaths posing as pundits and journalists, and decimate their own kind out of...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
America's gun obsession - Adam Kokesh on Washington DC's Russia Today
01-12-2011
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YouTube
The United States has had a gun control problem for years but recently with the shooting of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, it seems to have been thrust into America's conscious yet again. What is the answer to this violence and what should
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
TUCSON: EMBLEMATIC, ONLY THE CONSTITUTION CAN SAVE US FROM OURSELVES
01-12-2011
Is the root cause of this nation's escalating political vitriol our failure to embrace the Constitution? Can controversies involving government violations of the Constitution be settled in the political arena?
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mutating swine flu virus might render vaccine useless
01-12-2011
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Terrence Aym
Health experts are rushing to stay ahead of a rapidly mutating H1N1 virus. Recently, reports have been issued that a swine flu breakthrough has occurred in the UK, Sweden and several other northern European countries. Of paramount concern is the poss
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Terrence Aym
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