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Date Sent: 2011-02-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, February 26, 2011 |
Peter Dale Scott: War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis
Following U.S. Sanctions, U.N. Security Council to Meet on Libya -- Motorists facing £6 a gallon ($9) at the pump due to Libya crisis -- Foreclosed Homes Accounted For 26 Percent Of 2010 Home Sales In The US -- Debt takes a huge chunk out of California's beleaguered budget -- The US Economy and $4.00 A Gallon Gas: A Bad Moon on the Rise -- Paul Craig Roberts: War Über Alles -- We're Rapidly Approaching the Crisis to Which 2008 Was a Warm Up -- Day of Reckoning on California Pensions? -- Wartime contracting commission details years of waste -- Does FEMA know something you and I don't know? -- Hidden Provisions in Wisconsin Bill -- Scientists: New fault line caused New Zealand killer quake -- 4409: Border Patrol changing name to Inland Compliance Squad in 2012 -- Putin, Medvedev see Arab unrest as peril to Russia and West -- "The Solution to Real ID" with Mark Lerner -- Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb -- Mary Meeker's Definitive Guide To The American Public Debt Crisis
AZ: Volunteers needed for Freedom's Phoenix workshop final move (the studios) starting at 11:30AM today; Ron Paul keynote speaker in
Phoenix, today for Tea Party event.
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News Link • Martial Law
Peter Dale Scott: War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis
02-25-2011
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globalresearch.ca/
It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as continuous as it has been unheralded.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Following U.S. Sanctions, U.N. Security Council to Meet on Libya
02-26-2011
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NY Times
A day after the US imposed unilateral sanctions against Libya, the UN Security Council prepared to consider imposing international sanctions, including an arms embargo, an asset freeze and a travel ban against Qaddafi, his relatives and key members o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Motorists facing £6 a gallon ($9) at the pump due to Libya crisis
02-26-2011
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www.telegraph.co.uk
At one point the price of Brent Crude spiked on the London market, hitting $119.79 a barrel â€" $8.54 higher than when trading started yesterday morning.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Interactive Map of Case Shiller Home Price Drop from Peak
02-26-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Greg Swan called housing bears "flying monkeys" right as Phoenix, Arizona peaked. I believe congratulations are in order. It's not easy to be that boldly inept.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Exporting Speculative Debt
02-26-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
Dr. Steve Keen's model demonstrates how speculative financial investment in a pure credit economy will inevitably lead to a severe recession/depression once the speculative debt levels overwhelm the productive capacity of the economy.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosed Homes Accounted For 26 Percent Of 2010 Home Sales In The US
02-26-2011
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TheTruthAboutMortgage.com
Nevada led the nation in distressed sales with a staggering 57 percent share â€" Arizona and California weren’t far behind, at 49 percent and 44 percent, respectively.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Debt takes a huge chunk out of California's beleaguered budget
02-26-2011
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LAtimes.com
In the next budget, the amount devoted to debt repayment is expected to exceed the money invested in California's prized public universities.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The US Economy and $4.00 A Gallon Gas: A Bad Moon on the Rise
02-26-2011
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LewRockwell.com
A man on his feet can usually take a sucker punch, or at least recover from it. But if he’s already on the ground and you kick him in the head, he’s done-for.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Waste
War-zone contracting escapes close scrutiny
02-24-2011
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www.battlecreekenquirer.com
"tens of billions of dollars have failed to achieve their intended use in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to an interim study draft report obtained by the Associated Press.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Paul Craig Roberts: War Ãœber Alles
02-26-2011
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LewRockwell.com
General Smedley Butler told the jingoistic American population, to no avail, "war is a racket." As long as the American people remain proud that their relatives serve as cannon fodder for the military/security complex, war will remain a racket.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
We're Rapidly Approaching the Crisis to Which 2008 Was a Warm Up
02-26-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
When the stuff hits the fan this time around, the Fed will be powerless to do anything. Bernanke’s already shot every bullet he’s got. So when he loses control this time around, not only will the market crater, but the belief that has kept the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Day of Reckoning on California Pensions?
02-26-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Little Hoover Commission studied the public pension issue for 10 months before issuing its findings Thursday. To use the commission's blunt words, "pension costs will crush government."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Wartime contracting commission details years of waste
02-26-2011
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Robert Brodsky
The U.S. government has wasted tens of billions of dollars on contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and must make sweeping changes to avoid similar mistakes in the future, according to a report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Food
Does FEMA know something you and I don't know?
02-26-2011
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The Political Commentator
FEMA is apparently trying to stockpile hundreds of millions of MRE's (meals ready to eat)
In light of the Saudi student arrested in Texas on charges of plotting terrorist attacks throughout the United States.
In light of global food prices ris
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Serbian 'magnetic boy' stuns scientists
02-26-2011
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Terrence Aym
A seven-year old Serbian boy not only has a magnetic personality, he attracts metal objects to him...magnetically. The good-natured boy named Bogdan has gained fame throughout the world for his amazing ability to attract a variety of objects to his b
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
Scientists: New fault line caused New Zealand killer quake
02-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
While shocked residents continue to sift through the earthquake rubble of Christchurch, New Zealand, geologists have made a stunning discovery: the killer quake occurred along a previously unknown fault line. Now, as the death toll continues to mount
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Putin, Medvedev see Arab unrest as peril to Russia and West
02-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev issued separate warnings to Western Europe and the US that the ongoing uprisings, insurgency and outright revolts happening across the Middle East and North Africa are dangerous to t
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Events: America
"The Solution to Real ID" with Mark Lerner
02-24-2011
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Mark Lerner
We're going to have a great call this Saturday, Feb 25th, 2pm CST, on the American Radio Network with Real ID whistleblower Mark Lerner. Mark will be discussing how he came of knowledge of the corruption surrounding the Real ID Act, his activist ef
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian official: Olympic torch may be 'fired into space'
02-25-2011
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Terrence Aym
It's something the ancient Greeks could have only wished for: the Olympic torch being carried to the gods in Olympus and being lit by Apollo, the sun god. Now, Russia may fulfill the Greek's ultimate Olympic dream. Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of Ru
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb
02-25-2011
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BusinessWeek.com
The "Black Swan" problem comes from a high dose of unpredictability that people do not take into account. It makes the world less and less forecastable. Now, if the world is not easy to forecast, what do you do? You build reserves.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
One Billion Hectares Worldwide Have Now Been Planted With Genetically Modified Crops
02-25-2011
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popsci.com
That's more than the land mass of the United States
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Bendable Microchips: The World's First Organic Microprocessor Is Unveiled
02-25-2011
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popsci.com
This week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference a team of European researchers will unveil a 4,000-transistor, 8-bit logic microprocessor with processing power equivalent to a simple silicon chip circa 1977.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
First 3-D Images of Nanoparticles Help Researchers Build New Nanoparticles
02-25-2011
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popsci.com
Nanoparticles are known for their strange and unexpected properties, like providing bendable ceramics, switchable magnetization and so on.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Testing the Goods: Motorola Xoom, the First Real Android Tablet
02-25-2011
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popsci.com
The first real iPad challenger enters the ring
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
No place left to hide drugs with new X-ray technology for airports
02-25-2011
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www.news.com
NEW X-ray technology that can reveal drug smugglers' internal cavities will be trialled at airports under a plan to fast-track security searches.
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Sierra Hancock
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