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Date Sent: 2011-01-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 27, 2011 PM edition |
My State Presently Owes Its Pension Funds $208 Billion, What About Yours?
Time to end foreign aid to Israel: ‘We just can’t do it anymore,’ Sen. Paul warns --
Spooky: Barack Obama Evokes Herbert Hoover -- Neocon Congressman Wants
Immunity For 1984 Style Citizen Spies -- Report: Only 47 percent of
working Americans have full time jobs -- Ron and Rand Paul Introduce “Audit the Fed” Legislation in House and Senate -- Witness To The Soviet Collapse: Soon The USA Will Be A Banana Republic --
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase sharply to 454,000 -- A
Frightening Satellite Tour Of America's Top 20 Foreclosure Wastelands -- Utah’s Dugway Army Base On Lockdown
-- Squashing The Chevy Volt: Volkswagen to unveil 261 mpg XL1 prototype
-- Foreclosure-Gate: Forged Documents Mysteriously Appear In Court? -- Yes Virginia, The Chinese Can Dump The Dollar -- Gary North: When Should You Make Your Move and How Far Out? -- Phoenix, Arizona: Housing Prices Hit New Post Bubble Low -- America's Dire State of the Union -- Mass Street Protests in Egypt -- New Video Game Depicts Takeover of United States (Video)
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
My State Presently Owes Its Pension Funds $208 Billion, What About Yours?
01-27-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
According to a report by the AEI, public pensions are under funded by more than $3 trillion nationwide. Illinois pensions alone are $208 Billion underfunded using realistic measures. The overall level of funding is 29% --- the worst in the entire nat
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Time to end foreign aid to Israel: ‘We just can’t do it anymore,’ Sen. Paul warns
01-27-2011
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Rawstory
One of the Senate's newest members has settled upon an idea to reduce American debt that's likely to come off as highly controversial in the halls of power: ending ALL foreign aid, including the tens of billions dedicated to Israel.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Spooky: Barack Obama Evokes Herbert Hoover
01-27-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
From David Rosenberg's morning report:
A long-standing colleague and reader sent this off to me yesterday and it blew me away.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Neocon Congressman Wants Immunity For 1984 Style Citizen Spies
01-27-2011
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PrisonPlanet.com
New York Republican Peter King has introduced a bill that would protect the army of citizen spies Homeland Security hopes to recruit under Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” snoop campaign from lawsuits brought by innocent people...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Report: Only 47 percent of working Americans have full time jobs
01-27-2011
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Terrence Aym
The January 7, 2011 employment report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor has some "sit up and take notice" numbers in it. Presumably the major news media overlooked the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers since none have reported on its gloomy
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Reported by:
Terrence Aym
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron and Rand Paul Introduce “Audit the Fed” Legislation in House and Senate
01-26-2011
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Businesswire.com
Congressman Ron Paul and his son, Senator Rand Paul, today introduced companion legislation in both chambers of the United States Congress to require a full and thorough audit of the Federal Reserve.
The bills, both titled The Federal Reserve Tra
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Agriculture
Strip Tillage Protocol Improves Fertilizer Yield Margin
01-27-2011
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arclein
U.S. agricultural practices create 58 percent of nitrous oxide in the world, which is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Scientists believe nitrous oxide contributes to global warming about 300 times more than carbon dioxide
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Birds as Flying Machines
01-27-2011
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arclein
MISSOULA, Mont. " The flying abilities of even the most prosaic bird put airplane maneuvers to shame, and experts here at the University of Montana Flight Laboratory are cognizant of that every day.
“Birds can do some pretty spectacular things,” s
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
Witness To The Soviet Collapse: Soon The USA Will Be A Banana Republic
01-27-2011
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Rawstory.com
Orlov, who witnessed the Soviet Union's collapse from within, lamented that the American empire's condition is so severe there is "absolutely nothing" most can do to keep it alive or hasten its demise.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Automotive Conga Lines
01-27-2011
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arclein
A little cleaner, a little safer: Volvo claims an 80 percent reduction in accidents and a 20 percent reduction in emissions with road trains. The cars all "draft" each other, exploiting air drag to increase efficiency, and the closely-controlled li
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Archaeology
Oldest Winery Found in Armenia
01-27-2011
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arclein
This is the earliest, most reliable evidence of wine production," said archaeologist Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
"For the first time, we have a complete archaeological picture of wine production dating b
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase sharply to 454,000
01-27-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
In the week ending Jan. 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 454,000, an increase of 51,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 403,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
A Frightening Satellite Tour Of America's Top 20 Foreclosure Wastelands
01-27-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
For a frightening way to visualize the foreclosure crisis, we're borrowing a Google maps technique described by Barry Ritholtz. The satellite map of Phoenix, Arizona gives you a good idea what the other 19 foreclosure maps look like...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Utah’s Dugway Army Base On Lockdown
01/27/2011
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therealnewsnow
The U.S. Army’s Dugway base went on lockdown late Wednesday evening as part of “an ongoing security operation,” according to spokeswoman Paula Thomas.
Nearly 1,000 employees are stranded at the base, but Dugway Commander Col. William E. King, IV s
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The Real News
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News Link • Energy
Squashing The Chevy Volt: Volkswagen to unveil 261 mpg XL1 prototype
01-27-2011
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gizmag.com
VW is calling the XL1 is the most efficient car in the world. This is achieved through a combination of lightweight construction using monocoque and add-on parts made of carbon fiber, very low aerodynamic drag (Cd 0.186) and a plug-in hybrid system..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Forged Documents Mysteriously Appear In Court?
01-27-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
One of the sorry reminders of the decline of the rule of law in the United States is the frequency with which incidents of what look like document forgeries take place in foreclosure cases.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Yes Virginia, The Chinese Can Dump The Dollar
01-27-2011
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blog.ml-implode.com
It is also rumored that Chinese agents are going to the commodities exchanges, using their Treasuries as collateral to control commodities contracts. This indirectly secures ownership of the commodity, without having to actually sell Treasuries.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Gary North: When Should You Make Your Move and How Far Out?
01-27-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The hard part is to accurately forecast how much worse, and then accurately forecast where things won't get worse. Then the forecaster must put his money where his mouth is. Well, not really. He keeps his mouth shut. He puts his money where his...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Phoenix, Arizona: Housing Prices Hit New Post Bubble Low
01-27-2011
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AZcentral.com
For more than 18 months, local real-estate analysts believed they had called the bottom of the housing market back in April 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Propaganda
New Video Game Depicts Takeover of United States (Video)
01/27/2011
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therealnewsnow
In recently released footage of the game “Homefront,” Kaos Studios depicts the United States of America under foreign occupation after the economic collapse of the U.S dollar. The game, which is rated mature, comes out March 3rd and will surely spark
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The Real News
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Opinion • Police State
Cops and Citizens " Who’s Killing Who?
01-25-2011
David Alpha
Police apologists around the nation are exploiting the deaths of officers in a brazen attempt to collectively play victim, while daring to blame the people for waging a “war on cops.” “There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a w
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