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Date Sent: 2010-08-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 27, 2010 |
Bernanke under pressure to prop up US economic recovery -- Banks back switch to renminbi for trade
Sen. Baucus on Reading Bills: We Hire Experts for That -- Off Grid
Living: Cody Lundin's Underground Sustainable Home -- EPA Considering
Banning Lead Bullets -- ONLY the US Supreme Court has Constitutional
Authority to Conduct the Trial -- Pistol-packing preacher protests
arrest; DC police confiscate guns -- US Drone Strike Destroys House
Full of Children in Pakistan -- FrankenFish: Genetically modified
salmon grow twice as fast -- Leaked CIA memo cites U.S. Jews among
exporters of terrorism -- JFK Assassination Cover-Up Blown Sky High --
CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the people -- 4409 video:
How much CHAOS can just one sign Create? -- Denmark's Non-Profit Rocket
is Ready to Launch Next Week -- Fed Seeks Delay of Bank Data Release
While Considering Appeal -- The Unpleasant Truth of Depending on EMRs
(ObamaCare Mandate) -- Too Much Debt, Too Many Houses: Schiff, and
Blodget Fix The Economy
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News Link • Torture
Legacy of Torture
08-26-2010
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NY Times
Because federal judges cannot trust the confessions of prisoners obtained by intense coercion, they are regularly throwing out the government’s cases against Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
The Government Has a Seed Bank Repository " Why Shouldn’t You?
08-26-2010
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InfoWars.com/
If the governments and Elites of the world are taking seed protection so seriously, then it behooves the individual to develop a similar seed bank savings account that can offer real value...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Sen. Baucus on Reading Bill: We Hire Experts for That
08-26-2010
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The Flint Report
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius joined Sen. Max Baucus for a listening session, apparently Senator Baucus- the Chairman of the Finance Committee who helped author the federal health care bill- still hasn't even read the entire thing.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Off Grid Living: Cody Lundin's Underground Sustainable Home
08-26-2010
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Youtube.com
Cody Lundin's 700 square foot home takes advantage of passive solar, and the insulating power of the earth. The roof and walls of his home were built with rebar, gunite, and burlape, with the widows facing south.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
EPA Considering Banning Lead Bullets
08-26-2010
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Google Search
If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day befor
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • States' Rights
ONLY the US Supreme Court has Constitutional Authority to Conduct the Trial
08-26-2010
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Canada Free Press
Does anyone read the US Constitution these days? American lawyers don’t read it. Federal Judge Susan Bolton apparently has never read it. Same goes for our illustrious Attorney General Eric Holder. But this lawyer has read it and she is going to show
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
Banks back switch to renminbi for trade
08-26-2010
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Robert Cookson, www.ft.com
A number of the world’s biggest banks have launched international roadshows promoting the use of the renminbi to corporate customers instead of the dollar for trade deals with China.
HSBC, which recently moved its chief executive from London to Ho
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke under pressure to prop up US economic recovery
08-26-2010
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Katie Allen, guardian.co.uk
When Ben Bernanke addresses the annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole tomorrow he does so against arguably the most challenging backdrop in his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman.
At the end of a week of gloomy reports, Bernanke fac
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Gun Rights
Pistol-packing preacher protests arrest; DC police confiscate guns
08-26-2010
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Johnson City Press
Unaware that his Tennessee handgun carry permit was not valid in the District of Columbia, Duncan was surprised when police were called. He was even more surprised by the belligerent attitude of the officer in charge. Surprise became shock when feder
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan
08-26-2010
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AntiWar
The Obama Administration’s policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of “suspected militants” in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
FrankenFish: Genetically modified salmon grow twice as fast
08-26-2010
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The small bio-tech firm, AquaBounty Technologies Inc., has genetically engineered a salmon, which reaches an 8-pound market weight in just 18 months, compared to the 36 months normally required.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Leaked CIA memo cites U.S. Jews among exporters of terrorism
08/26/2010
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Ha'aretz
Wikileaks releases a CIA memo titled 'What if Foreigners See the United States as an Exporter of Terrorism?' in which American Jews in Israel was one of four groups mentioned.
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Reported by:
Lola Flores
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News Link • Conspiracies
JFK Assassination Cover-Up Blown Sky High
08-26-2010
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Kurt Nimmo, www.prisonplanet.com
It is a story the corporate media, with the notable exception of one lone Fox News affiliate, refuses to report. A former FBI agent, Don Adams, has compelling evidence Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate president John F. Kennedy. Adams was assigne
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Reported by:
Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the people
08-26-10
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http://www.ppjg.wordpress.com
Now then; If we the people understand that these agreements are harmful and not in the best interest of moving the nation forward…if we the people know that these agreements are in direct violation of our laws and constitution……
WHY IS CONGRESS EV
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • States' Rights
Nullify Now!
08-19-2010
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Raven Clabough, New American
In the face of the growing behemoth known as the American federal government, states and individual citizens are rediscovering the Tenth Amendment as a defense against tyrannical and unconstitutional measures taken by the fed. Recalling the power ass
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Joan Walling
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News Link • Day of Reckoning
A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to the Apocalypse
08-26-2010
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LewRockwell.com/Thomas Luongo
Having spent years preparing and worrying about what the dreaded Day of Reckoning was going to look like had a subtle yet profound effect on me.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Liquid battery
08-26-2010
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Technology Review
In the fall of 2007, David Bradwell, an MIT grad student, created a new kind of battery--one that might eventually be used to store massive amounts of solar and wind energy for use at night or when the wind isn't blowing.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
MIT's New Synthetic Material Allows Stem Cells to Grow Without Foreign Catalysts
08-26-2010
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PopSci
Now, researchers at MIT have overcome a major obstacle to both stem cell study and eventual stem cell treatments by creating a synthetic surface that enables stem cells to live and multiply for months, producing clinically-useful quantities of ident
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Denmark's Non-Profit Rocket is Ready to Launch Next Week
08-26-2010
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PopSci
The world’s first volunteer-built, not-for-profit passenger rocket funded purely by donations and sponsorships is preparing for launch next week, ticking off a milestone in human spaceflight history.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Seeks Delay of Bank Data Release While Considering Appeal
08-26-2010
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Bob Ivry and David Glovin, Bloomberg
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board sought to delay the court-ordered release of documents identifying banks that might have failed without the U.S. government bailout while it considers an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Fed a
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
The Unpleasant Truth of Depending on EMRs (ObamaCare Mandate)
08-26-10
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http://www.ppjg.wordpress.com
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Imagine if you will an alternate universe. One where people, thousands of them, can disappear in a few weeks time. Well one Veteran doesn’t have to imagine, because he found out he apparently
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Earth Bacteria Survive a 553-Day Space Exposure on the Exterior of the ISS
08-26-2010
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PopSci
Out there, the bacteria were exposed to everything from the wild temperature swings between day and night, cosmic radiation, extreme exposure to ultraviolet light, and the effects of the vacuum of space.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Too Much Debt, Too Many Houses: Schiff, and Blodget Fix The Economy
08-26-2010
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BUsinessinsider.com/
Henry's answer: Too much debt, too many houses. Peter's answer: Absurd drug-addict-like stimulus hastening bankruptcy of already bankrupt country. Dylan's answer: Banksters.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
L.A. Prison Using Experimental, Controversial 'Pain Ray' to Keep Inmates in Line
08-26-2010
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PopSci
A similar microwave pain ray was disqualified for military use in Afghanistan
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Big Bear Solar Observatory Snaps the Most Detailed Pic of a Sunspot Ever
08-26-2010
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PopSci
The image was captured with Big Bear’s New Solar Telescope (NST), a brand new instrument (as the name implies) with a resolution of just 50 miles on the sun’s surface.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Obama To Replace Washington On Dollar Bill?
08-26-2010
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FastCoDesign.com
It took George Washington 72 years to get on the front of the dollar bill. SF-UK design firm Dowling Duncan wants to put Barack Obama on it now. In blue.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Charges Against Drug War Activist Barry Cooper Dismissed
08-26-2010
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OA Online
Ector County prosecutors will not prosecute former narcotics agent turned marijuana activist Barry N. Cooper and two others on charges filed this summer by the Texas Rangers in connection with the December 2008 Kopbusters hoax.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban Surprised to Hear Petraeus Claims of ‘Progress’
08-26-2010
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AntiWar.com
The latest claims that the Afghan war is going really well and that the Taliban are on the run have come as a surprise to many, but perhaps none moreso than the Taliban themselves, who called Gen. Petraeus’ claims “baffling.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
46 dead in attacks targeting Iraqi security forces
08-26-2010
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Antiwar Newswire
The deadliest attack came in Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, where a suicide bomber blew up a car inside a security barrier between a police station and the provincial government's headquarters.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
China Launches New Earth-Mapping Satellite
08-26-2010
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Space.com
Authorities will use Tianhui 1 for scientific research, mapping and land resource surveys to help promote economic development, according to a statement on the Chinese Ministry of Defense website.
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Donna Hancock
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