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Date Sent: 2011-04-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 14, 2011 AM edition |
US Continues Bombing Libya Despite Obama's Word--US missiles hit Pakistan despite request to limit
Goldman Sachs misled clients, lawmakers on CDOs, Senate panel says -- In Financial Crisis, a Dearth of Prosecutions Raises Alarms -- Border and Community Vigilantism -- The curse of free money -- New Grievances Broaden Syria’s Protest Movement -- Fiesta Bowl will bill lawmakers for past sports trips -- Police State Terror in Bahrain -- Ron Paul:The Nanny State Can't Last -- Keeping Capital in a Depression -- A Serious Prescription For Obama's Budget Fallacies -- April 15 will be Feet to the Fire Day at the AZ Capitol -- Somalia offensive gains ground, but at high cost -- Ex-NY mob boss makes history with trial testimony -- Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners -- Barry Bonds found guilty of obstruction -- World Health Officials Debate Whether To Destroy Last Existing Samples of Smallpox -- With a Massive Hardware Hack, Libyan Rebels Hijack Disabled Cell Phone Network -- Obama would cut deficit by $4 trillion in 12 years -- 5 Years Of Falling Prices, But Homeowners Still in Denial -- Foreclosure-Gate: Banks To Get Away Scott-Free Again? -- Foreclosure-Gate and The Ministry of Truth
Nationwide: "Atlas Shrugged" starts tomorrow!!!
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon Still Continuing to Bomb Libya Despite Obama's Promise
04-14-2011
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NY Times
Pentagon officials disclosed Wednesday that American warplanes had continued to strike targets in Libya even after the Obama administration said the United States was stepping back from offensive missions and letting NATO take the lead.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US missiles hit Pakistan despite request to limit
04-14-2011
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AP
Two U.S. missile strikes killed six reputed Afghan Taliban fighters in a Pakistani tribal region Wednesday, drawing sharp condemnation from Pakistan's government just days after it asked Washington to limit such attacks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs misled clients, lawmakers on CDOs, Senate panel says
04-14-2011
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Washington Post
Goldman Sachs designed, marketed and sold collateralized debt obligations that misled investors and created conflicts of interest as the company built short positions before the U.S. housing market collapsed, a Senate panel said in its report on the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
In Financial Crisis, a Dearth of Prosecutions Raises Alarms
04-14-2011
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NY Times
It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The curse of free money
04-14-2011
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Washington Post
The free money that distresses Tom Hoenig, as president of one of the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional banks, is being pumped into the economy by 2 policies of the Federal Reserve " very low interest rates and a second “quantitative easing” (printing mo
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News Link • World News
New Grievances Broaden Syria’s Protest Movement
04-14-2011
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NY Times
Syria’s growing protest movement broadened as Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities, had its first demonstrations against the government of President al-Assad, and a group of women from the coastal village of Bayda, where hundreds were detained this
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Fiesta Bowl will bill lawmakers for past sports trips
04-14-2011
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Arizona Republic
"The Fiesta Bowl intends to invoice elected officials, where appropriate, for the amounts (it) paid for their tickets or other benefits," bowl attorney Nathan Hochman said in an e-mail Wednesday. "If an elected official disputes the amounts paid by t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Sarah Palin Probably Staged A Gigantic Hoax About Being Trig's Mother
04-13-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The theory is that Sarah Palin is actually the grandmother of her purported son Trig, not the mother, and that she staged a gigantic hoax during the campaign to cover up this fact.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
A Serious Prescription For Obama's Budget Fallacies
04-13-2011
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Market-ticker.org
That's ok Barry - you will either cut the crap or the market will do it for you. If you don't do it, you better get a prescription for some Zoloft or Ambien, because you're going to need it.
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News Link • Activism
April 15 will be Feet to the Fire Day at the AZ Capitol
04-13-2011
The Arizona chapter of Americans for Prosperity, along with allied Tea Party groups and policy organizations, is hosting a giant Feet to the Fire Tea Party from 6:00 to 9:00 pm on the evening of April 15, 2011. The event will take place on the House
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • World News
Somalia offensive gains ground, but at high cost
04-13-2011
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AP
African Union peacekeepers who launched an offensive 7 weeks ago have expanded their control of Mogadishu to around half the Somali capital. They've gotten so close to Islamic insurgents the soldiers can hear them cock their rifles before counteratta
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News Link • Conspiracies
Ex-NY mob boss makes history with trial testimony
04-13-2011
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AP
A jailed Mafia boss who once ordered a payback killing in the infamous "Donnie Brasco" case made gangland history by becoming the highest-ranking member of the city's 5 Italian organized crime families to break their sacred vow of silence and testify
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News Link • Housing
Gov't orders 14 lenders to reimburse homeowners
04-13-2011
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AP
The federal government ordered 16 of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and servicers to reimburse homeowners who were improperly foreclosed upon.
Government regulators also directed the financial firms to hire auditors to determine how many ho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Bonds found guilty of obstruction
04-13-2011
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AP
Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using steroids and human growth hormone.
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Feature Article • Humor
Growing up without a cell phone!
Thomas Costanzo
Are over the hill or getting there, you'll think this is hilarious!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to schoo
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Fresh From Jeopardy, Artificial Intelligence Fights Infection in the ICU
04-13-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
rtemis, a software program built on the back of IBM analytics software similar to that powering Watson, is being tested as a means to provide early warnings when babies in the ICU acquire hospital-borne infections.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
World Health Officials Debate Whether To Destroy Last Existing Samples of Smallpox
04-13-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Humanity’s worst scourge, the smallpox virus, may finally wind up on death row in May if health officials decide to destroy the last known samples. The virus was eliminated in human populations more than 30 years ago
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News Link • Military
With a Massive Hardware Hack, Libyan Rebels Hijack Disabled Cell Phone Network
04-13-2011
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Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
But today’s tale of Libyan rebels and a few international telecom experts hijacking the Libyana cellphone service from strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s government isn’t just another chapter in an ongoing story.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
2011 Skyscraper Contest: Energy Harvesters, Domes With Holes, and Other Buildings of the Future
04-13-2011
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Future cities could include pancake-shaped buildings, power plants that harvest lightning and ocean-based skyscrapers that produce potable water and clean up trash. Those are some of the visions in the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Goods: April 2011's Hottest Gadgets
04-13-2011
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Caitlin Kearney and Brett Zarda via PopSci.com
A dozen great ideas in gear, from a shatter-resistant HDTV to a pen that automatically saves your notes in the cloud.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Life on the List
04-13-2011
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Steve Yoder
You could say it started with three small-town Minnesota boys riding their bikes to a convenience store on an October night in 1989. As they were returning home on a dark stretch of road, a man stepped out of the darkness holding a gun. He told them
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News Link • Housing
5 Years Of Falling Prices, But Homeowners Still in Denial
04-13-2011
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blogs.reuters.com
According to the latest Pew survey, only a minority of Americans think that their home has fallen in value since the recession began in December 2007. And the poorer and less educated you are, the less likely you are to think your home has...
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Banks To Get Away Scott-Free Again?
04-13-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Obviously, this is a situation that has to be resolved as USSA kleptocracy can not be forced to pay for prior (and ongoing) transgressions. Which is why we were not surprised to learn that "Bank regulators plan to announce settlements...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate and The Ministry of Truth
04-13-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
But in the never-never realm of reality denial within the Beltway, as long as you can get a PhD or better to grace the latest offering from the Ministry of Truth, it gives useful cover to Congresscritters and other message amplifiers who will spout..
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