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Date Sent: 2011-04-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 12, 2011 PM edition |
Fed Gave $220 Million In Bailout Money to The Wives of 2 Morgan Stanley "Bigwigs"
Sony Settles PlayStation Hacking Lawsuit -- Ivory Coast Resolution
Turns Into Neo-Colonialism -- The Nanny State Can't Last -- Gallup's
Economic Confidence Index Screams Slowdown -- Gangsters of NYC: Real
Housewives of Wall Street and Welfare for the Richest -- L. Neil Smith - Full 2 Hours - World News - New Book "Sweeter Than Wine" - "Atlas Shrugged"
-- There's No Budget Deal, And The Government May Still Shut Down --
Budget Deal May Collapse -- IRS to increase “pre-crime” enforcement -- Jesse Ventura on Government Cover-Ups . . . --
Laurent Gbagbo's humiliating fall -- Housing still best investment
despite downturn -- Oregon Supreme Court Highlights “Drug Dog” Woo --
USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Radiation Contamination -- It’s time to end birth-right citizenship in the USA -- Unfettered lawlessness in Arizona charges FAIR -- Iris Scanners Gain
Traction in New York and Texas -- Department Of Defense and
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace -- Government
Debt: A Wake Up Call To The Left, Right, and Center -- 65 Ways Everything That You Own Is Being
Systematically Taken Away -- College Students: You Are Exploited
Debt-Serfs -- US And Ireland Are Dead Even: 2011 US Budget Deficit at
10.8% of GDP -- Fukushima Cover Up -- Swaziland
pro-democracy protests meet tear gas and water cannon -- Cornel
West: Obama is ‘another black mascot’ of ‘Wall Street oligarchs' -- A
Dystopian Future Where America Will Kick Old People To The Curb -- "End Of The World" Inflation: 47% In Six
Months -- Why All of Washington D.C. Acts Like It is an
Out-of-Touch Madman -- Avigdor Lieberman to Be Indicted -- Planned Libya Invasion -- The memo that 'proves aliens
landed at Roswell'... released online by the FBI
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Gave $220 Million In Bailout Money to The Wives of 2 Morgan Stanley "Bigwigs"
04-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Matt Taibbi has resurfaced with another stunner of Wall Street impropriety which will lead to merely more silence, even more unanswered questions and be quickly buried by the kleptocratic oligarchy.
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Reported by:
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
World-Record Jump Attempt Set for Indianapolis 500
04-12-2011
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wired.com
The iconic Indianapolis 500 will celebrate its 100th anniversary this Memorial Day weekend, but a crew of stunt drivers, engineers and construction experts is banking on a side spectacle that’ll amaze fans as much as the race itself.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Inside the FBI’s Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
04-12-2011
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wired.com
Ten years ago, letters laced with anthrax killed five people. The FBI says it traced the spores to a single U.S. scientist. But could the feds have gotten the wrong man?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Sony Settles PlayStation Hacking Lawsuit
04-12-2011
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wired.com
Sony dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz on Monday in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Ivory Coast Resolution Turns Into Neo-Colonialism
04-12-2011
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dailybell.com
Africa is a better place with one less tyrant and such individuals have got to respect the will of the electorate.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The Nanny State Can't Last
04-12-2011
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dailybell.com
Last week, Congress and the administration refused to seriously consider the problem of government spending. Despite the fear-mongering, a government shutdown would not have been as bad as claimed.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gallup's Economic Confidence Index Screams Slowdown
04-12-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Soaring gas and food prices not only reduce disposable income but also discourage additional spending as the cost of necessities increases. Global events, continued political battles about the budget in the nation's capital...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gangsters of NYC: Real Housewives of Wall Street and Welfare for the Richest
04-12-2011
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
What is especially repugnant is the well financed campaign to go after the victims, the taxpayers and defrauded investors, and to force them to bear the brunt of the pain caused by that graft and corruption, by playing on the meanest and lowest...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Budget Deal May Collapse
04-12-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
It turns out that so much smoke and mirrors was used to create the minuscule $38.5 billion in budget cuts, during the ciricus act budget negotiations, that the real cuts are, get this, microscopic: somewhere between $8 and $14 billion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
IRS to increase “pre-crime” enforcement
04-12-2011
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www.sovereignman.com
Did you ever see Minority Report? It’s one of Steven Spielberg’s often forgotten about movies based on the short story by Philip K. Dick. In the movie, pre-couch Tom Cruise plays a police officer in the year 2054 who works for the highly specialized
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Laurent Gbagbo's humiliating fall
04-12-2011
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www.guardian.co.uk
The Ivory Coast strongman is forced to bow to the inevitable four months after losing elections
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Housing still best investment despite downturn
04-12-2011
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www.reuters.com
Even as a five-year slump in house prices drags on, eight-out-of-10 Americans say bricks and mortar remain the best long-term investment, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Today on LewRockwell.com - Tuesday April 12th, 2011
04-12-2011
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lewrockwell.com
The Official, One and Only, PC Cause of the Civil War - Tom DiLorenzo isn't buying it. / Laugh at the Government - That's the best way to undermine it. Article by Tom Schmidt. / The Days of Our Overlords Are Numbered - Ron Paul on how and why.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Radiation Contamination
04-12-2011
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Farm Wars
Cows eat contaminated grass, drink contaminated water, and lo and behold, we find radioactive elements in their milk.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
Iris Scanners Gain Traction in New York and Texas
04-12-2011
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govtech.com
More than 2,100 departments in 27 states use iris recognition, according to media reports from 2007. And in November 2010, the technology received high-profile coverage when the New York City Police Department (NYPD) began using it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Department Of Defense and National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
04-12-2011
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secureidnews.com/
The smart phone would be the perfect form factor for this type of personal use credential. “People are carrying them and there’s no real additional hardware cost … we might be able to make that work,” Butler says.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Government Debt: A Wake Up Call To The Left, Right, and Center
04-12-2011
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Market-ticker.org
For those on the left or right, Tea Party or Coffee Party, these are economic facts. They are trivially reducible to third grade arithmetic. The fundamental equation of GDP is taught in your first formal economics exposure, no matter where you...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
65 Ways Everything That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away
04-12-2011
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Blacklistednews.com/
Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you. It is being done purposely and it is being done by design. Many Americans like to think of themselves as “well off”, but as will be demonstrated below, we don’t “own” nearly...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
College Students: You Are Exploited Debt-Serfs
04-12-2011
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OfTwoMinds.com/blog
Of all the exploitative systems in the U.S., none is more rapacious than the Education Cartel. Like the proverbial frog that is unaware that it's being boiled because the water temperature rises so gradually, college students and their parents are...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US And Ireland Are Dead Even: 2011 US Budget Deficit at 10.8% of GDP
04-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The IMF report notes that of all budget deficits in "selected countries", the US will hit the highest at 10.8%, the same as Ireland, and just ahead of Japan at 10%. And a direct stab at the US: "The United States needs to accelerate the adoption...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Our Big Pig Problem
04-12-2011
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arclein
For more than 50 years microbiologists have warned against using antibiotics to fatten up farm animals. The practice, they argue, threatens human health by turning farms into breeding grounds of drug-resistant bacteria. Farmers responded that restric
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Mammoth Mystery
04-12-2011
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arclein
So where did these mysterious giants come from? What were they like? And what drove them to extinction? Biologists have been arguing over these questions ever since Cuvier's time. In the past few years, however, a wealth of new information has emerg
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robert klein
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News Link • Natural Disasters
Fukushima Cover Up
04-12-2011
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arclein
On the other, it means the defeat of the nuclear energy idea, an idea they hold to with almost religious devotion. And it means not just the loss of those six (or ten) reactors, it means shutting down all the others as well, a financial catastrophe
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
Swaziland pro-democracy protests meet teargas and water cannon
04-12-2011
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The Guardian
Riot police have fired teargas and water cannons, beaten demonstrators and arrested union leaders, activists and journalists in an attempt to stop pro-democracy protests in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy. Riot police dispersed more than 1
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Disputed police grant is defended to panel
04-12-2011
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Arizona Republic
Considerable controversy surrounds the grant, with critics alleging that the Phoenix police department deliberately inflated kidnapping statistics to obtain it. The department and its top officials dismiss the allegations as untrue.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott's role in development deal investigated
04-12-2011
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Arizona Republic
When top Maricopa County sheriff's officials decided a proposed East Valley development would have no financial impact on the Sheriff's Office, they directly contradicted an analyst's assessment that it would cost the agency $500,000
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Cornel West: Obama is ‘another black mascot’ of ‘Wall Street oligarchs'
04-12-2011
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Rawstory.com
In an interview last week, he suggested that Obama has sold out and become “a puppet” of powerful interests, merely promising change and not delivering. West warned that this would thrust the U.S. into a “democratic awakening” the likes of which...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
A Dystopian Future Where America Will Kick Old People To The Curb
04-12-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
JP Morgan's Michael Cembalest gives a chilling analogy to America's future: the 1976 film Logan's Run.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
"End Of The World" Inflation: 47% In Six Months
04-12-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Back in October, Zero Hedge discussed a Costco offer for Shelf-Reliance THRIVE's one year's supply of dehydrated, freeze dried food, better known as "apocalypse rations."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Why All of Washington D.C. Acts Like It is an Out-of-Touch Madman
04-12-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
But it is the system " carefully put together and controlled by the corporate-state establishment " to whom the "Unabomber" label justly applies. It is the system owners who put the Stepford servomechanisms in seats of apparent authority to...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
James Howard Kunstler: Skeleton Dance
04-12-2011
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Kunstler.com
Like the dancing skeletons of film history, here come the elected office-holders of the US government cutting their capers in the graveyard of empire, giving the paying customer - er... citizens - a nice case of the Friday night heebie-jeebies...
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Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • Corruption
Avigdor Lieberman to Be Indicted
Stephen Lendman
Indictment expected this week - It explained he represents the worst of Israel's lunatic fringe, sort of a combination Dick Cheney/John McCain/Joe Lieberman, too extremist to be entrusted with power, but he's got it.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
The Casino Court!
4/11/2011
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Camerafraud
Think of ATS, Redflex, and the courts which knowingly choose to take part in this fraud as a casino. Since they write the rules, they have the house advantage. This casino is “invitation only” (a fake letter in the mail bearing a false sworn statemen
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
The memo that 'proves aliens landed at Roswell'... released online by the FBI
04-11-2011
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www.dailymail.co.uk
A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI.
The bureau has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault.
Among them is a memo to the directo
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Ernest Hancock
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