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Date Sent: 2010-12-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, December 3, 2010 PM edition |
WikiLeaks out for hours after US firm pulls plug -- South Korea raises rhetoric against the North
Adam Kokesh - Guest host for Ernest, live from the Freedom Summit 2010
-- WikiLeaks: Conformists vs. Individualists - by Jacob Hornberger --
Wikileaks and the Moral Decadence of Conservatives - by Jacob
Hornberger -- Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators -- Mississippi Supreme Court Grants Cory Maye a New Trial -- Foreign contractors hired Afghan 'dancing boys', WikiLeaks cable reveals -- First TSA checkpoint trial to occur Tuesday -- Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retraction…-- Secretive X-37B Robot Space Plane Returns to Earth on Autopilot -- Gold jumps above $1,400/oz after U.S. data -- China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record -- XBOX 360 hacker's DMCA case dropped PDQ -- Foreclosure-Gate: Bank of America Garners Unwanted Attention -- Nassim Taleb: Black Swan Wisdom In The Face Of CNBC Cheerleaders -- NYT Still Stalking Bête Noire Iran - by Ray McGovern
-- Reason Suppressed: The World Turned Upside Down - by Melanie
Phillips -- Scanner Radiation Fears -- WikiLeaks Reveals Diplomatic
Cables on Aafia Siddiqui -- Oops: November Unemployment Comes In Way Below Expectations -- Foreclosure-Gate: N.Y. Judge’s Testimony Contradicts ASF Assertions -- Are Accountants The Weakest Link In Unraveling Foreclosure-Gate? -- Joe Lieberman Parrots Mao: Crushing Free Speech Forever
AZ: 2010
Freedom
Summit starts Friday evening with a pre-event.
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News Link • Internet
WikiLeaks out for hours after U.S. firm pulls plug
12-03-2010
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Reuters
An American company that had been directing traffic to the WikiLeaks website withdrew its services late Thursday, making the site invisible for several hours. EveryDNS.net, which helps computers locate the sites of its members, said WikiLeaks had bre
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
South Korea raises rhetoric against the North
12-03-2010
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Reuters
South Korea on Friday threatened to bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, raising its rhetoric after the United States warned of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang.
Kim Kwan-jin, a retired general, was speaking at a parlia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
WikiLeaks: Conformists vs. Individualists
12-03-2010
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
WikiLeaks is exposing the great divides among the American citizenry: the good, little citizen who has a reverential deference for government power and the independent, critical thinker who isn’t scared to expose and oppose government wrongdoing.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Propaganda
Wikileaks and the Moral Decadence of Conservatives
12-03-2010
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
Reflecting longtime conservative disdain for civil liberties, Kuhner bluntly writes, “At this point, we are beyond indictments and courts. The damage has been done… Kill him.”
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Free Speech
Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
12.02/10
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Salon
The US struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in reaction to heavy political pressure.
The company announced it was cutting WikiLeaks off yesterday only 24 hours after being c
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Drug War
Mississippi Supreme Court Grants Cory Maye a New Trial
12-03-2010
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The Agitator (h/t Claire Wolfe)
The Mississippi Supreme Court granted Cory Maye a new trial today (PDF), though on different grounds than the Mississippi Court of Appeals, which granted the trial based on a change of venue issue. The state’s supreme court instead ruled that Maye’s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Foreign contractors hired Afghan 'dancing boys', WikiLeaks cable reveals
12/02/10
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Guardian.cp.uk
A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and "qu
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
First TSA checkpoint trial to occur Tuesday
12-03-2010
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Papers Please
In these circumstances, only the courts can define the limits of TSA authority to search, interrogate, x-ray, and grope innocent travelers who are not suspected of any crime. So far as we know, Mr. Mocek’s case is the first time someone in the USA ha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Monsanto’s Ongoing Corruption Incites Forbes’ Retraction…
12-03-2010
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Mercola.com
Monsanto has been paying farmers to use its competitors' herbicides. Why? It's a last ditch effort to address the spread of superweeds created by the company's "Roundup Ready" (RR) GMO crops.
Environmental scientists warned about the problem
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Secretive X-37B Robot Space Plane Returns to Earth on Autopilot
12-03-2010
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Space
After 7 months in space, the US Air Force's secretive X-37B unmanned space plane returned to Earth today to wrap up a debut flight shrouded in secrecy. The robotic X-37B space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to end its maiden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold jumps above $1,400/oz after U.S. data
12-03-2010
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Reuters
Gold jumped above $1,400 an ounce to a three-week high on Friday after U.S. jobs data disappointed the markets, knocking the dollar index down 1 percent and dampening expectations for a self-sustaining recovery.
U.S. employment increased by far le
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
China passenger train hits 300 mph, breaks record
12-03-2010
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AP
A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai. It was the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. Other types of trains have
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
XBOX 360 hacker's DMCA case dropped PDQ
12-03-2010
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Computer World
The prosecution ... moved to dismiss the case, admitting its error. ... The case was dropped on a technicality, not on its merits in relation to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which ... criminalizes the modification of technology to circumvent
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Nick Barnett
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News Link • Constitution
OPTIONS, ANYONE?
12-03-2010
WTP's Bob Schulz offers a lucid view of our failed Constitution noting the this week's Supreme Court's refusals to perform its primary legal function. What will the People do about it? It's high time for a new "game plan."
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Reported by:
Bob Schulz
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Employment Summary and Part Time Workers, Unemployed over 26 Weeks
12-03-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
This article contains some of the most frightening charts you are ever likely to encounter.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Bank of America Garners Unwanted Attention
12-03-2010
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Market-ticker.org
It was more than enough to blow them to Mars - and that was one transaction.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Nassim Taleb: Black Swan Wisdom In The Face Of CNBC Cheerleaders
12-03-2010
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CNBC.com
Nassim Taleb tries to explain ethics and economics to the clueless cheerleaders on CNBC.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
NYT Still Stalking Bête Noire Iran
12-03-2010
Ray McGovern
It would surely be helpful to those wishing to see an Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran, if U.S. intelligence could produce satellite photos showing those missiles in Iran. It’s a sure bet that if Washington had such images, they’d be all over the p
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News Link • American History
Reason Suppressed: The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips
12-03-2010
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arclein
lease don’t mistake me " I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate differences of opinion on such issues. But what I’m talking about goes beyond genuine disagreement. I’m talking about the sheer impossibility of bringing facts and evidence to the t
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scanner Radiation Fears
12-03-2010
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arclein
In theory, these ought to be safer than X-rays because millimetre photons do not have enough energy to break chemical bonds. Last year, however, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico suggested that these low energy photons coul
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
E Ink on Paper
12-03-2010
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arclein
The paper-based e-ink technology uses the electrowetting method, in which an electric field is applied to colored droplets in a display unit to effectively turn on and off pixels in an array. Unlike
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self-Assembly of Nano-Rotors
12-03-2010
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arclein
The confinement of molecular species in nanoscale environments leads to intriguing dynamic phenomena. Notably, the organization and rotational motions of individual molecules were controlled by carefully designed, fully supramolecular host architectu
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: N.Y. Judge’s Testimony Contradicts ASF Assertions
12-03-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Deutsch kept asserting that the failure of the parties to the securitization to adhere to their own contracts was not in fact a problem, there was no court evidence, these concerns were the mere natterings of worry-wart academics.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Yves Smith Nails It Again
12-03-2010
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Market-ticker.org & NakedCapitalism
Increasingly, consumer lawyers are recognizing that they can often successfully challenge foreclosures in which the loan was securitized by examining whether the party trying to foreclose really has the standing to do so, which is legal-speak for...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Are Accountants The Weakest Link In Unraveling Foreclosure-Gate
12-03-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Virtually the entire residential mortgage securitization system in America is hinging on fraud, as few if any of the recent structured finance packages actually were in possession of the necessary mortgage promissory notes...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
S&P Vs Fed Treasury Holdings: Spot The Correlation
12-03-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
So now that two years of QE (in their 1, Lite and 2 iterations) are in the history, we finally can run some correlation analyses to see just what asset class the Fed had been targeting all along.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Joe Lieberman Parrots Mao: Crushing Free Speech Forever
12-03-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
As if it wasn't enough that America's ruling oligarchs were sufficiently happy with abdicating their governing duties to the Federal Reserve, they have now decided to imitate China in every possible way.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
2008 Federal Reserve Bailout: Crisis-Hit Banks Flooded Fed with Junk
12-03-2010
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CNBC.com
More than 36 percent of the cumulative collateral pledged to the US central bank in return for overnight funding under the Primary Dealer Credit Facility was equities or bonds ranked below investment grade. A further 17 percent was unrated credit...
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Jack Gregson
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