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Date Sent: 2011-01-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 10, 2011 PM edition |
Biggest US Pension Funds Get Into Foreclosure-Gate Fray -- Pocket Sized Iris Scanners
Swiss village: pay your dog tax or Fido gets it -- Iran says it has arrested spy ring linked to Israel -- “Tucson” Shooter Part of a Military Mind Control Program? -- Tucson is not a right-wing bastion -- Dem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers -- Why Do People Believe in Fantasies? -- What I've Seen (Of Note) So Far On 'The Tucson Event' -- Ron Paul: I'll Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit -- Tunisian Government: 14 Killed as Rioting Continues -- Transparency and Accountability for the Federal Reserve! - by Ron Paul -- A Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid -- Citigroup Report On Why Absolutely No Sovereign Debt Is Safe -- Disturbing CFR Dream : Newt Gingrich Pushing for State Bankruptcies -- Exclusive: America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns --
James Howard Kunstler: Jared Got a Gun -- Birds Falling From
Sky:Bio-weapons testing- Schizophrenic Psychopathic Eugenics loving
Controllers? -- Liberty on Trial, Pete Eyre and Adam Freeman in Greenfield, MA Today. -- Gonzalo Lira: Bonds Are Doing Great! . . . Until They’re Not -- 'Not Owning Gold is a Form of Insanity': Chartist -- Paul Craig Roberts: Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire -- Chris Hedges: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich -- We're Next: India Leads The Way in Biometric ID Enslavement
AZ: PHX Objectivists:
Lecture on
"Postmodernism"
1/13/2011
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News Link • Housing
Biggest US Pension Funds Get Into Foreclosure-Gate Fray
01-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The coalition members’ insistence on immediate action reflects the urgency of their concerns over mishandled mortgages.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Property Rights
Swiss village: pay your dog tax or Fido gets it
01-10-2011
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AP
A law from 1904 allows the village to kill dogs if its owner does not pay the canine charge. "This isn't about a mass execution of dogs," [local terrorcrat] said. "It's meant to put pressure on people who don't cooperate."
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Iran
Iran says it has arrested spy ring linked to Israel
01-10-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service which it blames for the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, Iran's state television reported on Monday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
“Tucson” Shooter Part of a Military Mind Control Program?
01-10-2011
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theintelhub.com
Sources such as Fox News are reporting this morning that the suspected Tucson shooter was quoted as saying that he “was recruited by the Army”; however officials say “he was not recruited by the Army”.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Media: Print
A Case of Heroic Journalism? An Ex-Envoy Disagrees
01-10-2011
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The New York Times
The New York Times ran an awful story a few weeks back about Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper. Former US Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman responds to The Times's misrepresentations in the story via a Letter to the Editor.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Fiat Money Bomb
01-10-2011
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youtube.com
Through the month of January visit: http://moneybomb.silvercirclemovie.com to pledge to Silver Circle. Let's bring liberty to Sundance Film Festival 2011.
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Reported by:
Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Chinese Man Sprouts 3-Inch Horn From Head
01-10-2011
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AOL News
When you think about horned creatures, a few come to mind instantly: rhinos, bulls, unicorns, the devil. Amazingly, humans are part of that group more often than you might think.
Huang Yuanfan, 84, of Ziyuan, China, is the latest person to report
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Dem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers
01-10-2011
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The Hill
Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.
Brady t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Why Do People Believe in Fantasies?
01-10-2011
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Creators.com
John Stossel discusses why people believe in assorted myths such as mediums, fortunetellers, faith healers as well as assorted magical phenomena and the ex-Magician on a mission to challenge their assertions: James Randi.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
What I've Seen (Of Note) So Far On 'The Tucson Event'
01-10-2011
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Multiple sources - see text
Other than what has been either repeated 'ad nauseum' or SPUN...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: I'll Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit
01-10-2011
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youtube
[FOX] Ron Paul discusses how raising the national debt limit is inevitable due to accumulating interest and irrational government spending. He has some advice on what to expect from the new members of CONgress.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Tunisian Government: 14 Killed as Rioting Continues
01-10-2011
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Voice of America
The Tunisian government says 14 people have been killed in clashes with security forces, in the latest rioting during an unprecedented wave of unrest sparked by widespread unemployment and high food prices.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Sunday: 7 Iraqis Wounded
01-10-2011
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antiwar.com / Margaret Griffis
Only seven Iraqis were wounded in very light violence; however there are reports coming out of Camp Ashraf that claim 176 Iranians were wounded during a raid on Friday.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Weird Life: Hornet Exoskeleton Harvests Solar Power
01-10-2011
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Scientific Computing
In the process of photosynthesis, plants take the sun's energy and convert it to electrical energy. A member of the animal kingdom, the Oriental hornet, takes the sun's energy and converts it into electric power in the brown and yellow parts of its b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
A Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid
01-10-2011
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www.technologyreview.com/energy
A power tool using the lithium-ion ultracapacitor would run for only a 15th as long as it would on a battery but would recharge in just a minute.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Monday Jan 10th 2010
01-10-2011
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LewRockwell.com
Geithner: the US Government Is Dead Broke - The Coming Internet National ID - Decentralize Water Supplies - Reviving James Bond's Jet-Pack - 1,180 Foreign Military Bases - The World Goes Crazy - More Infringements on Our Gun Rights
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Currencies
Citigroup Report On Why Absolutely No Sovereign Debt Is Safe
01-10-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
While many investors have seen this coming, for a major investment bank to tackle the issue and in harsh terms break down the difficulties facing several states, is a sign the situation may be deteriorating further.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Disturbing CFR Dream : Newt Gingrich Pushing for State Bankruptcies
01-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Newt is pushing for legislation that will allow insolvent states to be taken off bailout support and file bankruptcy, in the process allowing them to renege on pension and other benefit obligations promises to state workers.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Exclusive: America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns
01-10-2011
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RawStory.com
The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the good of the republic, a former Reagan administration budget director recently told
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science
North Magnetic Pole at 55 kpy
01-10-2011
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arclein
The north magnetic pole (NMP), also known as the dip pole, is the point on Earth where the planet's magnetic field points straight down into the ground. Scottish explorer James Clark Ross first located the NMP in 1831 on the Boothia Peninsula in wha
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Peak Oil Again
01-10-2011
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arclein
The last time the planet was producing this much oil, the price of oil was at an all time high of $147...
(You could make the argument that the price was due to hedge fund speculation driving it higher.)
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Karpen's Pile Operates for Sixty Years
01-10-2011
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arclein
When Karpen built the battery he claimed it would function forever. Although decades ago engineers and physicists that studied it believed it would stop working soon it never has stopped.
Those engineers and physicists are now long dead, but the
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
James Howard Kunstler: Jared Got a Gun
01-10-2011
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Kunstler.com
Does this begin to sound sickeningly like the policy of the Federal Reserve and the thinking of its chairman, Ben Bernanke? Is the monetary behavior of top US officials now so disordered that it is showing up as...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Autism Fraud
01-10-2011
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arclein
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud" that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday.
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robert klein
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News Link • HAARP
Birds Falling From Sky:Bio-weapons testing- Schizophrenic Psychopathic Eugenics loving Controllers?
01-10-2011
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The Government Rag
Just before these bird and fish kills were discovered, civilian reports surfaced of sounds of Sonic Booms or pulses heard from the sky from Indiana, Charlotte N.C., Pensacola Florida, Michigan to Long Island.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Gonzalo Lira: Bonds Are Doing Great! . . . Until They’re Not
01-10-2011
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thehourlyg.blogspot.com
And let’s not even mention sovereign debt bombs"I mean, bonds! Or bombs. Whatever. Hell, European sovereign debt is like nitroglycerin in a shake-and-bake pouch: Ready to go off at the first signs of trouble.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
'Not Owning Gold is a Form of Insanity': Chartist
01-10-2011
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CNBC.com
Gold will eventually rally exponentially and investors who don't own the precious metal are "insane," and may be showing "masochistic tendencies," Robin Griffiths, technical strategist at Cazenove Capital, told CNBC.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Paul Craig Roberts: Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire
01-10-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
John Williams reports that “the level of payroll employment still stands below where it was a decade ago, despite the U.S.population growing by more than 10% in the same period.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Meet Your Future: Pocket Sized Iris Scanners
01-10-2011
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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
The Nano has roughly the footprint of a dollar bill, and I think it’s going to allow us to target virtually everything...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America by the Numbers: A Demographic Cartoon
01-10-2011
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NYTimes.com & Ritholtz.com
A sampling of statistics from the newly released Statistical Abstract of the United States.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich
01-10-2011
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TruthDig.com
Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
We're Next: India Leads The Way in Biometric ID Enslavement
01-10-2011
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thirdfactor.com
The technology uses computer technology to match unique characteristics of individuals against enrolled records. Examples include products that recognize fingerprints, faces, hands, veins, signatures, irises and voices.
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Jack Gregson
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