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Date Sent: 2010-02-05
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 5, 2010 |
Dow dips below 10,000 mark on euro debt, jobs data -- Congress Passes $14.3 Trillion Debt Ceiling
New Law Requires "Subversive Organizations" to Register -- Wesley Snipes acquitted of federal tax fraud -- Breakdown in the Gold Market -- Asia shares slide on economy fears; dollar climbs -- Gov't moving into central role in health care -- Court to rule on deporting Obama's aunt by May -- Reality Report 30 with Gary Franchi -- Commodity Expert Michael Martin and Charles Goyette -- Armored Wolf’s Brynjolfsson Says Dollar May 'Collapse' -- Ahmadinejad Calls the War Party Bluff...Again - by Brock Lorber -- Today's Tight Money Supply Market Crush -- Draconian Internet Licensing: Coming soon to your computer screen -- Taleb: "Every Single Human Being" Should Be Short U.S. Treasuries -- Initial Unemployment Claims Deteriorate to 480,000 -- NYC conviction doesn't silence Pakistani scientist -- FDA probes candy-like tobacco products -- Jet Lacey explains QIK
AZ: CameraFraud sign making Friday; Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday, and Sheriff Babeu takes on Photoradar
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow dips below 10,000 mark on eurozone debt, jobs data
02-04-2010
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Reuters
Investors dumped banks and commodity-related shares and Wall Street's fear gauge jumped more than 20%, fueling worries that the brief respite from the market's late January slide was over.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Let Them Eat Cake: Congress Passes Debt Ceiling 231-195
2-4-10
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ZeroHedge.com
Congress Democrats have just signed off on the US hitting 100% debt/GDP. About 140% if one adds GSE liabilities which also should be on the budget.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
New Law Requires "Subversive Organizations" to Register
2/5/10
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SC State House
"Subversive organization" means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Wesley Snipes acquitted of federal tax fraud
02-04-2010
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AP
Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.
Snipes had faced up to 16 years in prison if convicted on all charges
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Precious Metals
Breakdown in the Gold Market
02-04-2010
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Golden Jackass
A great disconnect exists in the gold market between the exchange futures contract price(the paper price) and the gold buillion paid price for transactions(the physical price). The differential in price is growing wider, enough to place tremendous p
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - International
Asia shares slide on economy fears; dollar climbs
02-04-2010
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Reuters
Asian stocks fell to near five-month lows on Friday as investors dumped riskier assets after rising sovereign debt problems in the euro zone and poor jobs data sent U.S. and European stocks tumbling. The U.S. dollar climbed, having surged in the prev
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Gov't moving into central role in health care
02-04-2010
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AP
Government is poised to become king of the hill in America's vast health care system, with or without President Barack Obama's planned redo. Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United S
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Court to rule on deporting Obama's aunt by May
02-04-2010
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Reuters
Authorities will decide by May at the latest whether to deport an aunt of President Barack Obama to her Kenyan homeland, the Justice Department said after a hearing in her case.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Cheers! Brits toast new shatterproof pint glass
02-04-2010
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AP
The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the government. Officials swore the country would save billions in health care costs by coming up with a glass that doesn't double as a lethal weapon. No officials were talking about reforming the B
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DNA evidence exonerates NY man of 1976 rape
02-04-2010
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AP
A mentally ill New York man who spent nearly six years behind bars for a 1976 rape he insisted he didn't commit was exonerated after DNA testing showed he was innocent. The conviction of Freddie Peacock of Rochester, now 60, was based on a false conf
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
New Views of Pluto Reveal Weird Bright Spot
02-04-2010
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Space
The Hubble Space Telescope has returned the most detailed images of Pluto ever taken reveal the strange mini-world in near true-life color, the surface appears reddish, yellowish, grayish in places, with a mysterious bright spot that is particularly
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Powell Gammill
Tom Westbrook will talk about how to get good deals on buying silver. A report on the activism done at downtown Phoenix this Thursday to greet Rudy Giuliani and Colin Powell and literally tens of thousands. Ernie returns from the East Coast.
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News Link • Positive News
Reality Report 30 with Gary Franchi
02-04-2010
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Reality Report
In this edition of the Reality Report Gary Franchi covers a story on the banker bailout payback extension, a victory over socialized healthcare in Virginia, a story on the new facial recognition hardware that could be headed to your local police stat
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Foreign aid expert says Haiti recovery hampered by lack of government
02-04-2010
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University of Illinois newsbytes
Also believes we should keep giving to a general fund, perhaps to be run by the world bank
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Armored Wolf’s Brynjolfsson Says Dollar May `Collapse’
2-4-10
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Bloomberg.com & news.matia.gr/
Start the video at the 1:50 mark. This interview is very good, but it is also interesting to see the reaction of the interviewer when he talks about the possible collapse of the dollar.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Thailand’s Slide into a Moral Abyss
02-04-2010
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Buffalohair Gazette International
With reports of corrupt Thai officials working with Burmese soldiers in human trafficking, drug distribution and murder it was not surprising to learn Thailand plans to send *3,000 Karen refugees back to Burma and ultimately their deaths. The operati
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Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Police State
Savannah Cops bust a Scad Keg party, is this a property rights issue?
02-02-2010
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www.LCLReport.com
We visit a Savannah College of Art and Design art house which was busted by police for a noise violation. Were the neighbors in the right to form a neighborhood watch group and call the cops on the house party or are they being busy body neighbors wh
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Tight Money Supply Market Crush; Gold Down Near 4.0%, Oil Down 5.0%
2-4-10
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Only tight money suppply can explain today's major market swings of a down stock market, down gold, down oil and a strong dollar. M3 has been cliff diving for 24 months, same time frame as economy...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Doctor Catch 22: Which came first, the Internet or the Depressed?
2-4-10
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YorkshireEveningPost.co.uk/news/
But it was not clear whether using the internet causes mental health problems, or whether people with mental health problems are drawn to the internet.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sovereign debt fears, economy sink stocks
02-04-2010
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Reuters
Stocks tumbled on Thursday as the number of Americans claiming jobless benefits rose unexpectedly and renewed fears of sovereign debt problems in Europe led investors to dump riskier assets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Draconian Internet Licensing: Coming soon to your computer screen
2-4-10
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Infowars.com/
Microsoft executive Craig Mundie calls for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Taleb: "Every Single Human Being" Should Be Short U.S. Treasuries
2-4-10
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ZeroHedge.com
Nassim Taleb, said that "every single human being" should bet USTs will decline "citing the policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the Obama administration."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece and Portugal: European Sovereign Default Contagion
2-4-10
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ZeroHedge.com
Contagion is here. Portugal and Greece default risks are now racing who can hit 500 first... Then 1,000... Forget the bond vigilantes: the sovereign default vigilantes just called Almunia's bluff.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Double Dip? Initial Unemployment Claims Deteriorate to 480,000
2-4-10
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ZeroHedge.com
Initial claims just made a negative U-turn and posted their first weekly increase since the beneficial inflection point. After new home sales and NAHB, is the initial claims double dip next?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Mises Circle Comes to Phoenix, Arizona April 10th 2010
02-03-2010
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mises.org
The line up reads like a day's listing on LewRockwell.com, including one Charles Goyette. The theme is - The Inflationary Path to Despotism. All this for 85 skins (including lunch). Not too shabby, I say. Not too shabby indeed.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nevada School Crisis: Governor to Cancel Collective Bargaining with Schools?
2-4-10
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Nevada has an $881 million budget deficit and drastic cuts are on the horizon for education. Governor Gibbons is investigating options of canceling collective bargaining agreements with school districts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Goldwater Report: Only 27% graduate from ASU in 4 years
2-4-10
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Fwix.com/phoenix
A debate is starting over new statistics from the Goldwater Institute showing a four year graduation rate of only 27 percent at Arizona State University.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
FDA probes candy-like tobacco products
02-04-2010
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Reuters
U.S. health officials are worried that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products can look too much like candy and are probing companies for more information to weigh the risk of nicotine addiction and poisoning in children.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
NYC conviction doesn't silence Pakistani scientist
02-04-2010
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AP
True to form, Aafia Siddiqui did not go quietly. Throughout a federal trial that featured compelling testimony about a perplexing case, the Pakistani scientist-turned-attempted murder defendant offered a running, combative commentary that sometimes g
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House faces tough vote on $1.9 trillion more debt
02-04-2010
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AP
House Democratic leaders are counting on more deficit curbs to smooth the way for allowing the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper into debt " about $6,000 more for every US resident and raising the cap on borrowing to $14.3 trillion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Fusion Center Data Collection GOES MLM!!! *no joke*
02-04-2010
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Sheeplevision - The Sheeple News Network
So, we were having a fundraiser garage sale for We Are Change Austin the other day and one of the first people to come by gave me this business card for the latest greatest mlm pyramid scheme that he was promoting. It seemed rather odd so I did a pho
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Garko Factor
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News Link • History
Elba Tablets
02-04-2009
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arclein
In addition, a vast array of Biblical names that have not been found in any other ancient Near Eastern languages have been reported to have been found in similar forms in Eblaite
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Sushi Chef on Sustainability
02-04-2009
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arclein
“Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across,” Foer writes.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
E Coli Hydrocarbon Production Engineered
02-04-2009
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arclein
he E. coli directly secretes the resulting biodiesel, which then floats to the top of a fermentation vat, so there is neither the necessity for distillation or other purification processes nor the need, as in biodiesel from algae, to break the cell t
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sarah Palin endorses Rand Paul for U.S. Senate
02-03-2010
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RandPaul2010
National political icon and conservative leader Sarah Palin has endorsed Dr. Rand Paul in his bid for United States Senate from Kentucky. The Paul campaign has received a generous donation from Governor Palin’s PAC.
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Donna Hancock
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