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Date Sent: 2010-10-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, October 14, 2010 AM edition |
U.S. presses mortgage lenders to fix documents, but foreclosures can continue
An implant to keep heroin addicts off street drugs? -- The Kidnapping of Cheyenne Irish (Third Update, 10/11) -- Video released about George Donnelly’s ordeal after being arrested for filming FIJA outreach -- Dissent in the age of Obama - by Cindy Sheehan -- Lie, Or The Terrorists Win -- Giant Undersea Network Will Bring Offshore Wind Power to East Coast, With Google Investment -- U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children
-- Prince George's court reviewing foreclosures over filing concerns --
Lack of proper mortgage paper trail could leave big banks reeling again
-- Brigade linked to Afghan civilian deaths had aggressive, divergent war strategy -- Court considers Texas death row DNA case -- Afghan firms said to pay off Taliban with US cash -- They're all out: 33 miners raised safely in Chile -- New scanner aims to make liquids on planes safer -- Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever --
Court quashes Sheriff Arpaio's appeal over jail food -- Karl Denninger:
It's Late, Do You Know Where Your Dollars Are Headed? -- Mind Control
& “Full Spectrum Dominance” -- Hair Stylists, Walmart Workers & Assy. Line Workers, Hired To "Defraud Homeowners" -- Has Walmart's Price Chopping Come to an End? -- Will 50 State AGs Create A "Total War" In The Housing Market? -- Fed Mulls Raising Inflation Expectations to Boost Economy -- School District Settles WebcamGate -- (unconfirmed) Breaking News: Baby Cheyenne: Evidence of Neglect or Abuse in Care -- Irish Central Bank: Raise Taxes Now -- Daniel Ellsberg, Angela Keaton, et al. on Afghanistan
AZ: "Free Will vs.
Determinism" Lecture, PHX Objectivist meeting Thursday; Tom Woods Speaking in Phoenix,
October 20; AZC4L Freedom
Rally and Annual Convention Featuring Dr. Ron Paul
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News Link • Housing
U.S. presses mortgage lenders to fix documents, but foreclosures can continue
10-13-2010
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Washington Post
Federal regulators sought to prevent the growing furor over improper foreclosures from escalating, pressing mortgage lenders to replace flawed and fraudulent court documents while insisting that foreclosures continue apace.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
An implant to keep heroin addicts off street drugs?
10-13-2010
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Reuters
The implant, called Probuphine, is an inch-long rod that sits just underneath the skin of the arm. During its 6-month lifespan, the implant releases a steady trickle of an anti-addiction medicine which decreases drug cravings without producing a high
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
The Kidnapping of Cheyenne Irish (Third Update, 10/11)
10-13-2010
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Pro Liberate
After Girard spent four months in jail without a criminal charge, his case was eventually "dismissed without a finding." He was designated a "ward of the court," compelled to undergo routine psychiatric evaluation and treatment, and notified that he
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Video released about George Donnelly’s ordeal after being arrested for filming FIJA outreach
10-13-2010
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Blog of Bile
US marshal Enrique Trevino, with the compliance of US attorney Seth Weber and federal judge Henry Perkin, frames a peaceful photographer. This video shows the brutality of US marshals in Allentown, the ability of state agents to frame peaceful people
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Dissent in the age of Obama - by Cindy Sheehan
10-13-2010
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al-Jazeera
Recently, the FBI raided the homes of at least 8 anti-war/social justice activists here in the US. I happen to be a prominent anti-war activist myself, and have joked that I am a “little hurt” that I was not raided and perhaps I should try harder. Ev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Lie, Or The Terrorists Win
10-13-2010
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Simple Justice
Court decisions tend to be comprised of two parts, findings of fact and conclusions of law. They are, in the best of circumstances, related. They should be, in all circumstances, reasonably accurate. This may be a quaint notion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Giant Undersea Network Will Bring Offshore Wind Power to East Coast, With Google Investment
10-13-2010
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
Last night, Google announced that it has agreed to invest heavily in a proposed $5 billion, 350-mile power transmission backbone that would provide infrastructure for future offshore wind projects along the mid-Atlantic coast.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Healthcare
U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children
10-13-2010
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NY Times
The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems, if state law allowed it.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Prince George's court reviewing foreclosures over filing concerns
10-13-2010
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Washington Post
The Prince George's County Circuit Court is reviewing foreclosure cases that have a "corrective affidavit," said Judge Thomas P. Smith, who heads the court's new foreclosure committee. In those affidavits, foreclosure lawyers said that they did not s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Lack of proper mortgage paper trail could leave big banks reeling again
10-13-2010
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Washington Post
The federal government's pressure on lenders Wednesday to fix the paperwork problems plaguing foreclosures left unaddressed a far greater potential threat facing the financial system and the U.S. economy. Beyond sloppy documents, the foreclosure deba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Brigade linked to Afghan civilian deaths had aggressive, divergent war strategy
10-13-2010
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Washington Post
The brigade also carried home a dark legacy that threatens to overshadow its hard-won victories and sacrifices on the battlefield. In some of the gravest war-crime charges to arise from the Afghan conflict, five soldiers have been accused of killing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death Penalty
Court considers Texas death row DNA case
10-13-2010
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Reuters
The Supreme Court considered whether a Texas death row inmate should be allowed to use civil rights law to gain access to DNA evidence that could prove his innocence in a triple murder. In a case with broad implications for states with the death pena
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan firms said to pay off Taliban with foreign cash
10-13-2010
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Reuters
Cash from the U.S. military and international donors destined for construction and welfare projects in restive parts of Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of insurgents, a contractor and village elders said.
The alliance of largely Western nat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
They're all out: 33 miners raised safely in Chile
10-13-2010
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AP
The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth Wednesday night -- a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
New scanner aims to make liquids on planes safer
10-13-2010
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AP
The latest airport security technology being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory could open the door for airline passengers to bring their soft drinks and full-size shampoo bottles on board again. Homeland security officials put the latest ge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever
10-13-2010
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AP (video)
A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, U.S. authorities said Wedn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Court quashes Arpaio's appeal over jail food order
10-13-2010
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Capitol Media Services
Citing evidence of "inedible'' food, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected efforts by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to escape an order that he serve meals that meet federal dietary guidelines.
In an unsigned ruling Wednesday, the judges s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Karl Denninger: It's Late, Do You Know Where Your Dollars Are Headed?
10-13-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.org/
There is another 0.75% decline in the value of the dollar in the last couple of hours, and it is very disorderly. The dollar looks to be headed to 72, historical lows. Bernanke is clearly intending exactly that sort of thing...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Mind Control & “Full Spectrum Dominance”
10-13-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Most of us have heard the military’s term “full spectrum dominance.” We have heard it defined, basically, as “a military concept whereby a joint military structure achieves control over all elements of the battlespace using land, air, maritime and sp
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Government Waste
Destruction of Largest Wyoming Wild Horse Herd Underway Despite Public Outcry
10-12-10
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The PPJ Gazette
Rock Springs, WY (October 12, 2010)"Amid nationwide protests, today 122 more healthy wild horses were rounded up by helicopter in the Adobe Town/Salt Wells Wild Horse Herd Management Area Complex. The current three-day roundup total is 320, not inclu
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Future Predictions
Top 10 Failed Futuristic Predictions
10-13-2010
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time.com
Google has been testing a self-driving car on the highways of California. But cool ideas such as these have often not panned out. TIME takes a look at visions of the future we've been endlessly waiting for (and some that we're happy haven't yet arriv
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News Link • Housing
Hair Stylists, Walmart Workers & Assy. Line Workers, Hired To "Defraud Homeowners"
10-13-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
"Financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair stylists, Walmart floor workers and people who had worked on assembly lines and installed them in "foreclosure expert" jobs with no formal training
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Has Walmart's Price Chopping Come to an End?
10-13-2010
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Time magazine
Walmart has rolled back its rollbacks. Earlier this year, the retailer tried to spark sluggish U.S. sales by lowering its prices " already bargains " even further. One analyst called it "an initiative that screams: Price! Price! Price!" These rollbac
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Will 50 State AGs Create A "Total War" In The Housing Market?
10-13-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
A financial institution in the business of making mortgage loans has no business routinely losing or damaging original promissory notes, and any institution that does so should be shut down by the federal regulators and I mean that.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Mulls Raising Inflation Expectations to Boost Economy
10-13-2010
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Bloomberg
Federal Reserve policy makers may want Americans to expect inflation to accelerate in the future so they spend more of their money now. Central bankers, seeking ways to boost flagging growth after lowering interest rates almost to zero and buying $1.
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News Link • Surveillance
School District Settles WebcamGate
10-13-2010
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NBC News
Lower Merion School District has settled the webcam case that made national headlines after students accused school officials of spying [on them at home] by using the webcam installed on school-issued laptops.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
(unconfirmed) Breaking News: Baby Cheyenne: Evidence of Neglect or Abuse in Care
10-13-2010
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BeforeItsNews.com via PhilipBrennan.net
"Baby Cheyenne has been taken out of CPS custody by the sheriff, who has taken over the whole case. She is being seen by a sexual abuse specialist..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Free Will vs. Determinism" Lecture
10-12-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first meeting in October to be held this Thursday, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to a pre-recorded lecture by Dr. David Kelley on "Free Will vs. Determinism".
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Mike Renzulli
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