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Date Sent: 2010-12-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 15, 2010 AM edition |
Fed policy buying Treasury bonds on track -- Senate spending bill has thousands of earmarks
House Democrats consider amendments to estate tax -- Assange back in
jail as Sweden appeals bail -- Helicopter Ben's Nightmare: 10 Signs
Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dying -- In 30 Years America Spent
Enough Debt To LBO Itself, And Ended Up Bankrupt -- Coast Guard will
use “flashbang” ammo to get boaters’ attention -- Want To Ruin Your Own
Country? Assume Your Banks’ Liabilities -- Assange granted bail, but
Sweden appeals -- 'Giant' Holbrooke Flunked Afghanistan - By Ray
McGovern -- You are Right to Remain Silent: Just Shut Up! -- Major
Investors And Sovereigns Are Just Starting Their Move Into Gold --
Richard Holbrooke Dead: Diplomat Dies At 69
AZ: Bill of
Rights Day celebration, today with Gary Johnson & Bob Levy;
Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon at Goldwater Institute, tomorrow
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed policy on buying Treasury bonds stays on track
12-14-2010
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Washington Post
Interest rates are marching upward, making it more expensive to take out a mortgage or get a loan to expand a business, and diluting efforts by Congress and the Federal Reserve to strengthen the economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate spending bill contains thousands of earmarks
12-14-2010
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Washington Post
Weeks after swearing off earmarks, many senators stand to gain tens of millions of dollars for pet projects in a massive spending bill that could be their last chance at the money before a more conservative Congress begins next month.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
House Democrats consider amendments to estate tax
12-14-2010
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Washington Post
As the Senate prepared to push through a sweeping tax package negotiated by the White House and congressional Republicans, House leaders were looking to amend the measure to satisfy the concerns of angry liberals without unraveling the deal altogethe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange back in jail as Sweden appeals bail
12-14-2010
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Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of U.S. ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail on Tuesday pending an appeal over a decision to free him on 200,000 pound ($317,400) bail for alleged sex crimes.
British judge Howard Ri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Helicopter Ben's Nightmare: 10 Signs Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dying
12-14-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
Unfortunately, things have changed. Confidence is U.S. Treasuries is dying, and if confidence in U.S. government debt completely collapses at some point we could literally be looking at financial Armageddon.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
In 30 Years America Spent Enough Debt To LBO Itself, And Ended Up Bankrupt
12-14-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
These are pure casinos, they are not capital markets, they are not adding to the productive capacity of our economy, they simply are a bunch of robots trading with each other by the millisecond as a result of the Fed giving them zero cost...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Gerald Celente: Off With Their Heads 2.0 - The Trend has Begun!
12-14-2010
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Rense.com
The spontaneous attack on the Royal couple was the first salvo in what promises to be a long war between the people and the ruling classes. "Anyone questioning the intensity of the people's seething anger is either out of touch or in denial,"
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
12-14-2010
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BBC via YouTube
'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically di
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Incredible Photographs of Earth From The ISS: By Astronaut Douglas Wheelock
12-14-2010
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triggerpit.com
On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China
12-14-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
One red flag is the vast number of vacant homes spread through China, by some estimates up to 64 million vacant homes.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Television
Old School Truth - 93 WTC was an FBI JOB!
12-14-2010
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http://MeetTheTruth.com (Forget the Press)
Mini-Docu/Tv-Show Meet The Truth -
Emad Salem was empowered by the FBI and instructed to give radicals live explosives to be used on the WTC in 1993. So should we ask who Put Thermite In The World Trade Center on September 11th 2001?
ex-911 Commis
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News Link • Food
Deadly new chili pepper: One bite may kill you
12-14-2010
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Tierney O'Hara - Terrence Aym
Most people approach food as a pleasure, but some approach it as a challenge.
The Naga Viper, now officially rated as the world's hottest chili pepper is so hot it could kill you with one bite. Anyone foolish enough to pop one in their mouth will
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Transportation
Coast Guard will use “flashbang” ammo to get boaters’ attention
12-14-2010
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http://threesheetsnw.com/
Ramping up the maritime police state.
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Alex Hepler
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lies, Lies, Lies: The New Foundation of the Financial System
12-14-2010
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lewrockwell.com
The days are dwindling down fast now. There are only a precious few left in 2010. The Dow rose 40 points on Friday. Gold fell off $7.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
This is definitely worth 4-minutes of your time
12-14-2010
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www.sovereignman.com
In the video below, Rosling charts a moving 200-year history of the wealth and life expectancy of 200 countries. In just 4-minutes, he shows that the gap between developing countries and developed countries is actually rather small...
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Want To Ruin Your Own Country? Assume Your Banks’ Liabilities
12-14-2010
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gonzalolira.blogspot.com/
Compare-and-contrast the fates of Ireland and Iceland
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Assange granted bail, but Sweden appeals
12-14-2010
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CNN
London (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted bail Tuesday after a hearing at Westminster Magistrate's Court in London, but a lawyer representing Swedish prosecutors immediately filed an appeal.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bill of Rights
You are Right to Remain Silent: Just Shut Up!
12-14-2010
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CounterPunch.org
After 35 years of practicing law in the trenches of state and federal courts, I have narrowed my advice for all my clients down to one, simple, direct sentence: "Shut Up."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Major Investors And Sovereigns Are Just Starting Their Move Into Gold
12-14-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
Cazenove Capital -- widely assumed to be a broker to the British royal family -- remains bearish on U.S. stocks and bullish on gold.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Richard Holbrooke Dead: Diplomat Dies At 69
12-14-2010
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huffingtonpost.com
Richard Holbrooke, a brilliant and feisty U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, died Monday, the State De
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Friendship Map Visualizes Connections Around The World
12-14-2010
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huffingtonpost.com
Paul Butler, an intern with the Facebook data infrastructure engineering team, has created a gorgeous map of the world that illustrates the human connections on Facebook and the distances those relationships span.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Shorts-Wearing Japanese Sprinter-Bot Runs Like a Human on Robotic Legs
12-14-2010
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popsci.com
The Japanese robot, named "Athlete," does not quite have the balance of a human yet
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