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Date Sent: 2010-08-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, August 9, 2010 PM edition |
Taliban launch attacks on US, Afghan military posts -- Canada, Land of Smaller Government
The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan - by Ron Paul -- ICLEI: Invasive UN Treaty in 600 American Cities -- First Established Populations of Genetically Modified Plants Found in the Wild -- Chris Martenson: Here Comes Inflation and Deflation -- Part 1: BICYCLING COAST TO COAST ACROSS AMERICA 2010--STARTING AT GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE - by Frosty Wooldridge -- Keene Police Shut Down Little Girl’s Limeade & Ice Cream Stand -- CITIZENS FURIOUS ABOUT ALL FORMS OF IMMIGRATION - by Frosty Wooldridge -- Commercial Real Estate Lobby Ask For Taxpayer Aid To Recapitalize Banks -- A car that runs 200 miles on compressed air -- Freddie Mac: $4.7 billion Loss, REO Inventory increases 79% YoY -- East of San Francisco: 20% Unemployment, House Prices off Sharply -- FHA Insured Mortgages: $1 Trillion Disaster In The Making -- First woman to head major US intelligence agency
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban launch attacks on U.S., Afghan military posts
08-09-2010
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Reuters
Taliban insurgents staged attacks on 3 combat posts of Afghan and US forces in a southeastern Afghan province. The official did not say how many militants were involved in the attacks or give any details about the type of the strikes in Paktika prov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Canada, Land of Smaller Government
08-09-2010
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The Wall Street Journal
When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the era of left-wing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeu no longer exists and America's northern neighbor has transformed itself.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are We Moving Toward a Perma-Temp Workplace?
08-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Whether we call it cynicism or realism, these young people trust their employers as much as they’ve seen companies take care of their parents and grandparents over the past 20 years " and that’s not much.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
First Established Populations of Genetically Modified Plants Found in the Wild
08-09-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Franken-canola has been found growing along roadsides in North Dakota, in one of the first known cases of genetically modified crops taking hold in the wild. The finding shows that genetically modified canola plants can survive and thrive in the wild
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chris Martenson: Here Comes Inflation and Deflation
08-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In an interview with Tech Ticker, writer and analyst Chris Martenson makes the case for stagdeflation, or basically, inflation and deflation simultaneously, an idea which has suddenly become the en vogue outlook of the moment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Making the Makerbot, A DIY 3-D Printer
08-09-2010
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John B. Carnett
For less than $1,000, the MakerBot kit provides nearly everything you need for your very own 3-D plastic printer. We find out what it takes to build and use one
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
In an Astronomical First, Scientists Capture 3-D View of Exploding Star
08-09-2010
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci
Those of you who thought 3-D had jumped the shark, check this out. Using a new instrument at the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have been able to capture a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a supernov
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Buckyballs
08-09-2010
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ZOOMDOOGLE via getbuckyballs.com
Tired of desktoys that only do one thing? Puzzled by puzzles that are hard to figure out? Frustrated by magnets that refuse to pull their own weight? Brace yourself, a whole new breed of adult toy is on the way. Featured in Rolling Stone, People Maxi
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Is it dawn or sunset for Konarka’s technology?
08-09-2010
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Scott Kirsner via boston.com
Scouring the labs of University of Massachusetts Lowell in the late 1990s for new technologies with big potential, Howard Berke stumbled across some experiments being done by the chemist Sukant Tripathy, then the head of the school’s Center for Advan
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
The Jobs Number
08-09-2010
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Peter Schiff via LewRockwell.com
Today’s disappointing payroll report reveals that the U.S. economy has failed to respond to the massive fiscal and monetary stimuli that have flooded the nation over the past two years. Not only is the news bad for job seekers and political incumbent
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News Link • Inventions
America's first in vitro baby
08-09-2010
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boston.com
She was the most famous baby in America after her birth in 1981 following in vitro fertilization. Yesterday, Elizabeth Comeau gave birth to a baby of her own, Trevor. Here's a look at Comeau's early life as the nation's first test-tube baby.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The 20 US Cities Where Incomes Are Falling The Fastest
08-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Wages are a key indicator of what direction the economy is going, and new data just released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis points to significant per capita income deflation in metropolitan areas across the U.S.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Fannie, Freddie, FHA REO Inventory Increases 13% in Q2 from Q1 2010
08-09-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The combined REO (Real Estate Owned) inventory for Fannie, Freddie and the FHA increased by 13% in Q2 2010 from Q2 2010. The REO inventory (lender Real Estate Owned) increased 74% compared to Q2 2009 (YOY comparison).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Lobby Ask For Taxpayer Aid To Recapitalize Banks
08-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The letter tacitly reminds that there are thousands of regional banks whose balance sheets are chock full with underwater commercial real estate. So in case taxpayers are wondering where the next fiscal stimulus will end up going, wonder no more.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Matthew Simmons' Awesome Presentation On The Coming Oil & Water Shortage
08-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This is a slide presentation of oil and water resources.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
British Petroleum Critic, and Energy Expert Matt Simmons Dies of a Heart Attack?
08-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Prominent oil investor Matt Simmons died of a heart attack last night at his home in North Haven, Maine, according to police reports.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Freddie Mac: $4.7 billion Loss, REO Inventory increases 79% YoY
08-09-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Freddie Mac reported: "a net loss of $4.7 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, compared to a net loss of $6.7 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2010." and the FHFA requested another $1.8 billion from Treasury.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
East of San Francisco: 20% Unemployment, House Prices off Sharply
08-09-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The unemployment rate in Stockton, the county seat of San Joaquin County, is 19.8%. It's 29% in the nearby hamlet of Garden Acres, higher than any city of its size in Southern California's Inland Empire.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
James Howard Kunstler: The Queasy Season - "bad ju-ju"
08-09-2010
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Kunstler.com
The greatest loss of the last decade was not in 401-Ks or manufacturing jobs or foreclosed houses, but the rule of law. Without genuine rule of law, anything goes and nothing matters. As a consequence of that, finally, everything goes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pre-foreclosure Filings Climb 33 Percent in Metro Phoenix
08-09-2010
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AZcentral.com
Last month, there were 7,804 notice of trustee sales, or pre-foreclosure filings, according to real estate research firm Information Market. That compares to 5,833 in June. July's figure signals the biggest month jump for new foreclosure filings...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
FHA Insured Mortgages: $1 Trillion Disaster In The Making
08-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
In spite of these increasing mortgage modification efforts, the number of seriously delinquent FHA mortgages (delinquent 90+ days) climbed to 555,000 in May 2010 according to HUD's Neighborhood Watch database.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona's Citizenry Wildly Cheer Construction Of Their Gulags Walls
08-09-2010
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Guardian.co.uk/
All of that began to change in April, when she signed a tough new state law cracking down on illegal immigrants, which soon put Arizona at the heart of a rabid national debate on immigration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
SunTech Dumps Thin Film, Wafer Research
08-09-2010
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arclein
Suntech has had three thin film experiments underway. It bought an Applied Materials SunFab system for making amorphous silicon panels. SunFab, however, resulted in high priced amorphous panels that weren't as efficient or cheap as panels made by co
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Let Them Eat Food Stamps
08-09-2010
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arclein
Get a clue, Mr. Obama, the tea party is expanding into the ‘fed up’ party and it includes all races, all classes and all political persuasions. Your “hope and change” will mean rice and beans for the majority of Americans very soon. While you and yo
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cat Parasite May Cause Mental Illness
08-09-2010
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arclein
lken, a cat owner who says he has tested positive for Toxoplasma antibodies, said the potential link between Toxoplasma infections and mental illness is no reason for cat owners to panic -- they just need to keep some basic hygienic precautions in mi
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
NOAA Confirms Presence of Global Warming
08-09-2010
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arclein
so scientists decided to step back and look at the proverbial forest, rather than at individual trees. They identified the key indicators as:
· Near-surface (tropospheric) temperature
· S
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robert klein
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News Link • Food
Fido's food could be making kids sick, report says
08-09-2010
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AP
[we're doomed] Dry pet foods are an under-recognized source of salmonella infections in humans, and it's likely other illnesses since then were unknowingly caused by tainted pet food, said a researcher at the federal Centers for Disease Control
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
First woman to head major US intelligence agency
08-09-2010
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AP
The US has had 3 female secretaries of state - but until now has never had a woman lead one of its 16 major intelligence agencies. Letitia A. Long is being elevated Monday to director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a ceremony at th
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