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Date Sent: 2011-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, August 18, 2011 AM edition |
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? -- Bank of America weighs foreclosure deal
US moral authority undercut by war on terror -- Asia Stocks Fall on High Yen, U.S. Rates Concern -- What is ‘corporate personhood’ and why does it matter? -- Jose Guerena's Family Sues Pima County Over SWAT Raid Killing -- Ernest Hancock in LA for two days with Butler Shaffer -- Rolling Stone Alleges Official Corruption? -- Dow 20,000 vs. ‘The End of America’: James Altucher Debates Porter Stansberry -- Chavez May Take Over Venezuela Gold Mining -- Ron Paul’s new ad: ‘The one who can beat Obama’ -- Disapproval of Congress Hits All Time High of 84% -- Libyan rebel “gains” smokescreen for talks in Tunisia to end war -- Ron Paul Responds To Perry Fed Smackdown
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil
disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Conspiracies
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
08-17-2011
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Rolling Stone
A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Rolling Stone Alleges Official Corruption?
08-17-2011
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Market-ticker.org
This is the bankrupt and criminal States of America, where we can't even get one State Attorney General to bring a perjury charge when there are 100,000 examples of people being ejected from their homes predicated on those perjured documents!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Bank of America weighs foreclosure deal
08-17-2011
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Reuters
Bank of America Corp may settle a state and federal probe of foreclosure practices in a deal that lets New York proceed with an inquiry into securitizations, Bloomberg reported citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The firm may pu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 McDonald’s Purchase
08-17-2011
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
US moral authority undercut by war on terror
08-17-2011
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AFP
"Although the Obama administration abandoned the Bush administration's global war terminology, it has largely adopted (the latter's) global war legal framework," Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union told AFP.
With indefinite detention
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police Data
08-17-2011
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
No one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday’s hacking of the BART Police Officers Association’s website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region’s subway.
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia Stocks Fall on High Yen, U.S. Rates Concern
08-17-2011
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Bloomberg
Asian stocks fell for the first time in four days after two Federal Reserve officials said they opposed a pledge to keep U.S. interest rates at record lows and as the yen rose toward a post-World War II high.
Honda Motor Co., a carmaker that gets
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
What is ‘corporate personhood’ and why does it matter?
08-17-2011
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Rawstory (video)
“This is what we need to return to: re-regulate the corporations and say, ‘Sorry, you are not people, corporations. You do not have First Amendment rights of free speech. Get out of our political lives and our political world.’
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Jose Guerena's Family Sues Pima County Over SWAT Raid Killing
08-17-2011
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Huffington Post
Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old Marine and Iraq war veteran, was killed May 5 when a SWAT team broke into his home a little after 9:30 a.m. According to Guerena's wife, Vanessa (who was home at he time, along with their 4-year-old son), Guerena thought t
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Think the Crisis Is Over? Think Again!
08-17-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
So if you thought the first Round of the Financial Crisis was bad, wait until you see the next one. Indeed, I fully expect that what’s coming is going to be 2008 on steroids. I’m talking about market crashes, civil unrest, riots, bank holidays and...
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow 20,000 vs. ‘The End of America’: James Altucher Debates Porter Stansberry
08-17-2011
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Businessinsider.com
But Stansberry is even more bearish on the U.S., predicting the dollar will lose its reserve status and the Treasury "bubble" will burst. "There's a huge storm brewing," he says. "Everyone with any sense is leaving the [Treasury] market, including...
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News Link • Precious Metals
Chavez May Take Over Venezuela Gold Mining
08-17-2011
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Bloomberg.com via Kitco.com
“The area is run by the mafia,” said Chavez. “We’re going to nationalize gold." (Isn't this like the pot calling the kettle 'black'?)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
iPhone-Driven Bike Computer Is Data Center for Pedalphiles
08-17-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
Short of bolting a sidecar to your bike, iBike’s Dash CC Deluxe cycling computer is as close as you can get to taking a personal navigator along for a ride.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Ron Paul’s new ad: ‘The one who can beat Obama’
08-17-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s latest television advertisement lumps his Republicans rivals together with Democrats and claims he is the only GOP presidential candidate that can defeat President Barack Obama in 2012.
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News Link • Drones
Disapproval of Congress Hits All Time High of 84%
08-17-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Disapproval of Congress has hit an all time record high of 84% according to a Gallup poll released today, barely a week after pollster Pat Caddell warned that a dramatic loss of confidence in the country’s leadership meant Americans were now “pre-rev
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds Who Ran ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Program Receive Promotions
08-17-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Three supervisors of the US government’s controversial anti-gun-running program “Fast and Furious” were promoted by the ATF despite continued criticism of their actions, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
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News Link • Libya
Libyan rebel “gains” smokescreen for talks in Tunisia to end war
08-17-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
The rush of military advances claimed by the Libyan rebels and the rumors of the near collapse of Muammar Qaddafi’s army and his imminent flight are designed, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report, as a smokescreen for three current oc
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Responds To Perry Fed Smackdown
08-17-2011
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/
Congressman Ron Paul has shared his thoughts on comments Rick Perry made regarding the Federal Reserve yesterday, which were afforded hours of airtime by the establishment media and were even addressed by the White House.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Running robot tops 6.8 miles per hour
08-17-2011
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http://www.rawstory.com/
A robot at the University of Michigan appears to have become the world’s fastest non-sentient runner after it was clocked at a maximum speed of 6.8 miles per hour.
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