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Date Sent: 2010-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 9, 2010 AM edition |
Iraq forces take over from last US combat brigade -- Fear: Bernanke Readies The Helicopter
Dollar slides vs Asia as stocks up ahead of Fed -- Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy -- Tracking your car? Cops need a warrant, says judge -- Job of collecting evidence against BP may go to . . . BP -- US-Vietnam Nuke Deal Will Likely Allow Enrichment -- US agency rules out health threat from oil dispersants -- Girl's Lemonade stands get reprieve and apology for health inspection shutdown -- Activists say Tea Party Imposters Infiltrating Elections -- States fight Obama's effort to kill legal challenge to federal health care plan -- Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions -- Guantanamo Trials: Gitmo Gears Up For 1st Trial Under Obama -- U.N. Back to Somalia After 17 Years -- ADOT and Toll Roads: How to steal more money -- Ahmadinejad doubts Sept 11 attack toll -- Did the State Threaten Camera Opponents? -- BLM Director Bob Abbey & making exposure to radioactive uranium contamination sound “friendly -- Preserving Food at Home: A Self-Study offered by National Center for Home Food Preservation -- The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connection -- Yves Smith Interview: The Economy, Offshoring of Jobs, and Our Banana Republic -- Peter Schiff: The Jobs Number -- The Obama Presidency Increasingly Resembles France Before the Revolution -- Double D: Goldman Explains The Imminent Launch Of $1 Trillion In QE 2
AZ: Thursday Breakfast, Libertarian Candidate Andrea
Garcia: "Why Russell Pearce & the SB1070 crowd must be Stopped!'
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq forces take over from last U.S. combat brigade
08-08-2010
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Reuters
The US handed over control of all combat duties to Iraqi security forces on Saturday in a further sign its withdrawal is on track despite a political impasse in Iraq and a recent rise in violence. President Obama said he would stick to his promise to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fear in His Eyes: Bernanke Readies The Helicopter
08-08-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Once all those who are now holding large cash balances, decide cash is not the place to be, because of an inflation threat (and I am not talking those just holding physical currency but anything in M2), then all hell breaks loose on the inflation...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar slides vs Asia as stocks up ahead of Fed
08-08-2010
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Reuters
The U.S. dollar fell against emerging Asian currencies on Monday on growing expectations the Federal Reserve will have to buy more bonds to support the flagging economy, helping to also lift commodity prices and equities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy
08-08-2010
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The Observer
An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation. Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of "judge's knowledge", a legal loo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Tracking your car? Cops need a warrant, says judge
08-08-2010
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ARS Technica
Police cannot surreptitiously stick a GPS unit on your car and track your movements without a warrant, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled. Police use of GPS evidence to convict two individuals was a violation of the Fourth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Job of collecting evidence against BP may go to " BP
08-08-2010
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Rawstory
Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what could amount to a crime scene at the bottom of the sea.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
US-Vietnam Nuke Deal Will Likely Allow Enrichment
08-08-2010
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AP
The Obama administration has told U.S. lawmakers that a nuclear cooperation deal with Vietnam is unlikely to include a coveted promise by the Hanoi government not to enrich uranium, congressional aides say.
The United States had sought a no-enrich
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
US agency rules out health threat from oil dispersants
08-08-2010
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AFP
Dispersants used to break up crude leaking from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well are not likely to accumulate in seafood and affect humans, the US Food and Drug Administration said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Girl's Lemonade stands get reprieve and apology for health inspection shutdown
08-08-2010
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The Oregonian
Inspectors told Julie Murphy and her mother, Maria Fife, to stop selling lemonade at the monthly Last Thursday arts festival in Northeast Portland last week. State law technically requires that even lemonade stands have temporary restaurant licenses,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Activists say Tea Party Imposters Infiltrating Elections
08-08-2010
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Fox News
Unable to attract support on their own, Democrat incumbents are running phony Tea Party candidates all over the country in hopes of siphoning away support from their Republican challengers.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
States fight Obama's effort to kill legal challenge to federal health care plan
08-08-2010
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Capitol Media Services
Arizona and other states are striking back at efforts by the Obama administration to kill their legal challenge to the new federal health care plan. Legal papers filed by the lawyers representing the 20 states challenging say they and their taxpayers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions
08-08-2010
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NY Times
There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions. The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers. Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Guantanamo Trials: Gitmo Gears Up For 1st Trial Under Obama
08-08-2010
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AP
Lt. Colonel Jackson, Pentagon-appointed defense lawyer for Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who will be the first trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Khadr, 23, is due to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15 years old.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
U.N. Back to Somalia After 17 Years
08-08-2010
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Reuters
The United Nations plans to move its foreign missions and organizations back inside Somalia after an absence of more than 17 years, a senior United Nations official said Sunday.
The United Nations left Somalia for Nairobi in 1993 because of secur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
ADOT and Toll Roads: How to steal more money
08-08-2010
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CameraFRAUD
Aug 25, 2010 3:00PM, League of Arizona Cities and Towns Annual Conference Session, Glendale. Utilizing Public, Private Partnershps (P3) for Transportation Funding in Your Cities (Tax em to build it, sell the road to a private company, and tax em to u
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Reported by:
David Alpha
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News Link • Iran
Ahmadinejad doubts Sept 11 attack toll
08-08-2010
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Reuters Africa
Speaking at a Tehran conference, Ahmadinejad said there was no evidence that the death toll at New York's World Trade Center, destroyed in the attacks, was as high as reported and said "Zionists" had been tipped off in advance.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Did the State Threaten Camera Opponents?
08-08-2010
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CameraFRAUD
Jack Harper: Corporate amnesty supporter, tried to raise money from American Traffic Solutions and Taser International but now doesn't want to talk about it. Hmmmm....
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David Alpha
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News Link • Government
BLM Director Bob Abbey & making exposure to radioactive uranium contamination sound “friendly
8-08-10
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www.ppjg.wordpress.com
How did Bob Abbey get named to head up the mineral division of BLM? By firing the man who tried to expose the contamination of drinking water with radiation from uranium leaching into the groundwater and filling up the pits. Nevada is riddled with
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ma, More Meatloaf: "Social Recession" and Japan's "Lost Generations"
08-08-2010
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
This trend of never leaving home has sparked an almost tragicomical countertrend of Japanese parents who actively seek mates to marry off their "parasite single" offspring as the only way to get them out of the house.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Blogtalk Radio Host Goes Off On Racist Smear Tactics From Left
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drscoundrels
UnVarnished Show host interviews Tommy Castellano, running for Congress and then hits several hot topics.
Included in these topics are a seriously strong rant against leftist tactics regarding racist smears against bloggers and show hosts who are
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Food Recipes - Long Term Storage Foods
Preserving Food at Home: A Self-Study offered by National Center for Home Food Preservation
08-08-2010
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PitchforksAtTheGate.com
Announcing a free, self-paced, online course for those wanting to learn more about home canning and preservation.
Introduction to Food Preservation
General Canning
Canning Acid Foods
Canning Low-Acid Foods
This course is offered in the Unive
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Andre Campos
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News Link • Housing
Dec. 31st 2002 I said "Sell Your House",.. but then came the bubble...
08-08-2010
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Ernest Hancock via LewRockwell.com
Government is trying re-inflate the Housing Bubble. This article was written 3 months before I started my first Radio Talk Show here in Scottsdale Weekdays morning drive and 2 years before the beginnings of FreedomsPhoenix... but I feel the same vibe
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connection
08-08-2010
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Farm Wars
What do Codex Alimentarius, the fluoridation of our water and food supply, genocide at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Monsanto, the company responsible for genetically altering the world’s food supply all have in common?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Yves Smith Interview: The Economy, Offshoring of Jobs, and Our Banana Republic
08-08-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Yves Smith is a major thorn in the side of Mish Shedlock, and for that reason alone I listen to what she has to say. You may not agree with all of her opinions, but she knows what is happening to this country.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff: The Jobs Number
08-08-2010
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LewRockwell.com
If the government fears the “recovery” will be further impinged by higher energy prices then look for “quantitative easing” to become both the driving force of our economic policy and poison that finally kills the dollar.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama Presidency Increasingly Resembles France Before the Revolution
08-08-2010
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news
The author of Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Double D: Goldman Explains The Imminent Launch Of $1 Trillion In QE 2
08-08-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Luckily, in the painful but now inevitable end, the population will rid itself of the Federal Reserve and of the false economic religion of Keynesianism, but not before the current wealth for 99% of the population, both rich and poor, is wiped out...
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Jack Gregson
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