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Date Sent: 2011-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 9, 2011 AM edition |
Stocks plummet at close -- Jackie Kennedy accuses LBJ of orchestrating JFK's assassination
Asian Stocks Tumble After Wall Street Rout -- Inflation Climbs in China
on Higher Food Prices -- The Pasteurization Police March On -- 215
arrested in London riots -- AIG sues BofA over $10 billion in mortgage
losses -- Futures Rout Accelerates: Emergency Fed Announcement Possible
-- In Soviet America Spending Cuts Go Up! -- ATS Photoradar Camera
Company Caught Thwarting Election Process
AZ: LIVE From Quartzsite Tuesday Noon to 2pm (PDT); 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 • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks plummet at close
08-08-2011
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AP
The Dow Jones industrials fell 634.76 points. It was the sixth worst point decline for the Dow in the last 112 years.... Investors desperately looked for safe places to put their money and settled on U.S. government debt - even though it was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
First Lady Jackie Kennedy accuses LBJ of orchestrating JFK's assassination
08-08-2011
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Daily Mail
Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal.
The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Tumble After Wall Street Rout
08-08-2011
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AP
Asian stocks markets were thrown into a tailspin Tuesday as flustered investors fearing a possible global recession continued to flee stocks. Hong Kong slid 6 percent and South Korea at one point plummeted nearly 10 percent.
Oil prices tumbled to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Inflation Climbs in China on Higher Food Prices
08-08-2011
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NY Times
Inflation in China accelerated last month to its fastest pace in three years, with consumer prices up 6.5 percent from a year earlier mainly as a result of rising food prices. Producer prices were 7.5 percent higher in July than a year ago.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The Pasteurization Police March On
08-08-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Kris Swanberg, a laid-off teacher, did something with her newfound free time and started to sell a product called Nice Cream, an artisanal product of her own creativity. Her apparent issues, among many, are that she uses fresh strawberries instead of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
215 arrested in London riots
08-08-2011
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news.xinhuanet.com
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Violence has continued in London for a third day, as rioters clashed with police in the eastern neighborhood of Hackney. It followed a weekend of unrest in various locations across the city in which more than 200 people
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
AIG sues BofA over $10 billion in mortgage losses
08-08-2011
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www.sfgate.com
American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, sued Bank of America Corp. over $10 billion in losses on mortgage-bond investments. The bank dropped 20.3 percent in New York trading.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Global Grand Policy Failure: Liquidity Traps and Financial Black Holes
08-08-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
That's a liquidity trap: those with cash and the ability to borrow have no desire to either spend or invest in new employees or business assets. Their cash (liquidity) is "trapped" in the sense they have no desire or need to spend it or invest it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago
08-08-2011
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YouTube
My favourite scene from Good Will Hunting and pertinent to the principles of liberty in its condemnation of killing people abroad who have done no harm to you personally. Taken to it's logical conclusion this belief should lead anybody who holds it t
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Is What Happens When...
Confidence is Lost
08-08-2011
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Market-ticker.org
After being down 634 points today the DOW futures are down 264 more overnight at this point, or approximately 900 points in less than 24 hours.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
06-01-2010
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youtube
Who owes who? Who owns who? And where is the money coming from?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Futures Rout Accelerates: Emergency Fed Announcement Possible
08-08-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Which is why we wonder, should the ongoing rout accelerate, to an extent driven by the decimation in the Korean Kospi, down -9.5% at last check, but also due to increasing worries the Fed may not announce QE3 tomorrow...
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
It Did Happen Here!
08-08-2011
Greg J Dixon
We closed our lead article in the April-June Trumpet newsletter entitled, "Can it Happen Here?", referring to the Japan tsunami with the following words: "To Be Continued." Little did we know . . .
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
In Soviet America Spending Cuts Go Up!
8/7/2011
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Free Patriot Press
When is an increase in spending a “spending cut”?
A logical person would say, “never” and would be correct. However, a special group of people known as politicians have determined to change the meanings of words so that increasing the amount of mo
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Camera Fraud
ATS Photoradar Camera Company Caught Thwarting Election Process
08-08-2011
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An Arizona-based traffic enforcement-camera company last year tried to enlist Mukilteo's mayor in finding somebody from the community "to use" in bringing a lawsuit that attempted to block a vote on an anti-camera initiative.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
U.S. Widens Role in Battle Against Mexican Drug Cartels
08-08-2011
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NY Times
Officials on both sides of the border say the new efforts have been devised to get around Mexican laws that prohibit foreign military and police from operating on its soil, and to prevent advanced American surveillance technology from falling under t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
County limits free speech to 3'x3' space ... in woods
08-08-2011
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www.wnd.com
Restriction blasted as 'most unconstitutional zone ever'
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Sam’s Exchange: Iran’s Oil Bourse. Who is next?
08-08-2011
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en.rian.ru
If you look at a map of the Middle East, you will notice that Iran is totally surrounded by American military bases. Full spectrum dominance from the United States military industrial complex is alive and well in the region.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Feds warn court: don't leak about NSA wiretapping
08-07-2011
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Politico
The Justice Department is warning a federal appeals court not to disclose classified information about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance programs during upcoming arguments on a lawsuit challenging the NSA's effort.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
More LAPD officers allege ticket quotas
08-07-2011
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LA Times
Ten more LAPD motor officers have sued the city, claiming harassment and retaliation after they complained they were forced to meet illegal traffic-ticket quotas.
The officers, all assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department's West Traffic Divis
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Market Prepares For "Hundreds And Hundreds" Of Downgrades Tomorrow
08-07-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
There will be hundreds and hundreds of municipal downgrades, which will not do well to bolster investor confidence." The scary bit: "Treasuries may be able to shake off a real impact from the downgrade. Munis I’m less sure about."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Greenspan Comes Clean and Endorses the 'Zimbabwe-Weimar Solution'
08-07-2011
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Lew Rockwell
Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bush 2.0: 100 Ways Barack Obama Is Just Like George W. Bush
08-05-2011
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The election of President Obama was in no small part, a referendum on the administration of George W. Bush, and his victory was interpreted as a sound rebuke to eight years of open ended warfare, a vast and growing police state, the destruction of ci
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Apologizes For Confiscating Pregnant Woman's Insulin, Ice Packs
08-05-2011
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ABC News (video)
The Transportation Security Administration is apologizing to a pregnant woman, one day after she said her insulin and ice packs were confiscated by screeners at Denver International Airport.
The Aurora woman was traveling alone to a baby shower in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Convictions in Katrina Shootings, Cover-Up
08-05-2011
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AP
Five current or former police officers were convicted Friday of federal civil rights charges related to deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Florida Teen Dies In Jail After Being Arrested For Marijuana
08-05-2011
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Perez's withdrawal of her request likely means the public won't know any time soon exactly what exactly happened the morning of July 10 at the lockup. In the spring, state lawmakers revised Florida's public records law, forbidding the release of pict
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