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Date Sent: 2011-08-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 10, 2011 PM edition |
Meredith Smiles: S&P Cuts AAA Ratings on Thousands of Municipal Bonds
DHS & FBI Merge Data Creating Database of Secret Watch Lists -- Bernanke to Keep Interest Rates Low to Enable Massive EU Bank Bailouts? -- Dow Tanks 520 Amid Ongoing Euro Zone Banking Fears -- The Great Gutierrez Recession -- Closing the deficit by legalizing
and taxing pot: the lessons of Prohibition from the book Last Call --
What are you teaching your kids? -- Radiation Overdose at the Airport -- A Visual Guide to $114.5 Trillion -- Anthony Gregory -
e-Zine article - "Sustainable Living, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Urban
Farms" -- Public Hearings Scheduled for Proposed Private Prisons in
Five Arizona Towns -- The Star Chamber 12: Six Republicans Named - Bill of Rights Doomed -- Bernanke Signals Dissenters Won’t Stop Stimulus -- Freddie Mac Seriously Delinquent Loans and REO by Selected States -- Jeb Bush Throws His Weight Around: Opposes States Rights In Education -- Making Waves: Are You Ready For President Jeb Bush? -- Anonymous vows to take down Facebook -- The Greatest Depression -- BREAKING: Post S&P Downgrade, Chicagoans Take to Streets, Demand Arrest of Bankers
AZ: Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite,
AZ on August 27th, bring your cameras.
Nationwide: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Smiles: S&P Cuts AAA Ratings on Thousands of Municipal Bonds
08-10-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Be very careful holding muni-bonds. A downgrade of a muni debt can be very costly in terms of interest rates for some of these municipalities---some of them, on their own, already are substandard credit risks.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
DHS & FBI Merge Data Creating Database of Secret Watch Lists
08-10-2011
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BlackListedNews.com
This newly proposed DHS Watchlist Service will combine four different DHS systems of records including the TSA-managed [9] Transportation Security Threat Assessment System [10] and TSA's Secure Flight [11]
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke to Keep Interest Rates Low to Enable Massive EU Bank Bailouts?
08-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
He must have known that there was soon to be a very big sucking noise from Europe. One that would require the USA to lend Europe some very big bucks.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow Tanks 520 Amid Ongoing Euro Zone Banking Fears
08-10-2011
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CNBC.com
Stocks finished near session lows in choppy trading Wednesday, with the Dow and S&P wiping out all of the previous session's gains led by financials, as investors continued to cautiously monitor developments in the European banks.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
You, your rights, the trust, courts, Law and more
08-10-2011
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youtube.com
Part1e1 - You, your rights, the trust, courts, Law and more
Dean Clifford - Raw, unedited - Enjoy
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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Opinion • Housing
The Great Gutierrez Recession
08-10-2011
Menckens Ghost
According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, a construction worker by the name of Gutierrez bought a Vallejo, California home in 2003 for $340,000, putting a measly five percent down and paying the remainder with a $322,700 loan, which res
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News Link • Family
What are you teaching your kids?
08-10-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
That unmistakable chink spoke volumes to me. It reinforced my responsible behavior, and it encouraged me to keep saving. This is something I’ve carried with me for my entire life.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Radiation Overdose at the Airport
08-10-2011
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www.activistpost.com
As the rate of cancer spikes among Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers who work near the full-body scanners at the Boston Logan Airport, union reps are alarmed at having been misinformed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and TSA
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Signals Dissenters Won’t Stop Stimulus
08-10-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he may expand record monetary stimulus over the most opposition of his tenure to revive the faltering recovery and reduce unemployment stuck around 9 percent.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Public Hearings Scheduled for Proposed Private Prisons in Five Arizona Towns
08-10-2011
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Tucson citizen.com via e-mail
The Department of Corrections will be holding public hearings... The public is encouraged to attend and voice their concerns about having a private prison as a neighbor.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
The Star Chamber 12: Six Republicans Named
- Bill of Rights Doomed
08-10-2011
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CNBC.com
Republicans named their six members to a U.S. congressional deficit-reduction super committee on Wednesday, setting the stage for an attempt to create bipartisan agreement on taxes and government spending.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Signals Dissenters Won’t Stop Stimulus
08-10-2011
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Bloomberg.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he may expand record monetary stimulus over the most opposition of his tenure to revive the faltering recovery and reduce unemployment stuck around 9 percent.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Meredith Smiles: S&P Cuts AAA Ratings on Thousands of Municipal Bonds
08-10-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Be very careful holding muni-bonds. A downgrade of a muni debt can be very costly in terms of interest rates for some of these municipalities---some of them, on their own, already are substandard credit risks.
Read Full Story
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Freddie Mac Seriously Delinquent Loans and REO by Selected States
08-10-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Although delinquencies and foreclosure activity is higher than normal in all states, a few states stand out.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Jeb Bush Throws His Weight Around: Opposes States Rights In Education
08-10-2011
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blogs.edweek.org/edweek
Bush, who wrote a letter to the subcommittee declaring support for the (Federal) common standards and urging them to table the legislative package.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Making Waves: Are You Ready For President Jeb Bush?
08-10-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Make no mistake, this Op_Ed is about Jeb Bush preparing the way for a potential presidential run. But, America needs more Bush promises as much as it needs a return of the Black Plague.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Anonymous vows to take down Facebook
08-10-2011
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www.tgdaily.com
A Twitter message purporting to come from the Anonymous hacker collective says the group's planning to destroy Facebook on November 5th.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Agriculture
Grazing Management Protects Streams
08-10-2011
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arclein
There were no differences in the amounts of sediment, phosphorus or pathogen deposits in the pasture stream between the different types of stream access given to the cattle. Most of the phosphorus and sediment introduced to the stream was the result
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Science
Gulf Plume Makeup Determined
08-10-2011
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arclein
The data "provide compelling evidence" that the oil component of the plume sampled in June 2010 essentially comprised benzene, toluene, ethybenzene, and total xylenes--together, called BTEX--at concentrations of about 70 micrograms per liter, the r
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Market has Spoken
08-10-2011
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arclein
Economists estimate the "multiplier" from government spending at about 1.5. That means for every $1 cut in government spending, about $1.5 dollars are taken out of the economy. The first year of cuts are therefore $375 billion to $400 billion in te
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Current Sea Ice Collapse Surpasses 2007
08-10-2011
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arclein
Average ice extent for July 2011 was 7.92 million square kilometers (3.06 million square miles). This is 210,000 square kilometers (81,000 square miles) below the previous record low for the month, set in July 2007, and 2.18 million square kilometers
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Activism
BREAKING: Post S&P Downgrade, Chicagoans Take to Streets, Demand Arrest of Bankers
8-10-11
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RTR.org
Immediately following the announcement of the S&P downgrade, defiant Chicagoans took the the streets and demanded the arrest of the Bankers and an the end of the Federal Reserve system. This was never covered on any news outlet.
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Reported by:
Uncle Freedom
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