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Date Sent: 2011-08-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 23, 2011 AM edition |
Battle for Tripoli not yet over as Gaddafi loyalists strike back
Deutsche Bank knew mortgage co it bought lied: Justice Dept -- "If You See Something, Film Something" -- Incentives Matter -- Standard & Poor's President Ousted? -- Expect bitcoin to be “banned” – expect the ban to be ignored -- $16,000,000,000,000+ in Secret "Loans"
at 0% Interest -- Incidents in China Suggest Further
International Destabilization -- Tiny
Pocketbots Prepped for Combat -- A Stick Figure Guide to
the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) -- INTERVENTION IN LIBYA: A
BAD IDEA IS STILL A BAD IDEA EVEN IF IT WORKS! -- Libyan War: Gaddafi Falls ... A War For
Oil and Gold? -- HR 2819 Closes The Books On Any
Questioning of the Osama bin Laden Raid -- Bank of America: Does
Someone Know Something? -- Karen
Kwiatkowski - Lewrockwell.com: Reason-able? / Paul Loeb - British Austerity
and Riots -- Perry’s Texas Jobs Boom: The Result of Big Government
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Battle for Tripoli not yet over as Gaddafi loyalists strike back
08-22-2011
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Washington Post
Forces loyal to the fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the night before, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and tempering hopes that t
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Deutsche Bank knew mortgage co it bought lied: Justice Dept
08-22-2011
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Reuters
Deutsche Bank AG knew in 2006 that a mortgage company it was preparing to buy lied to the U.S. government about its mortgages, yet went ahead with the purchase and should be held financially responsible, the Justice Department said on Monday.
Acco
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
"If You See Something, Film Something"
08-22-2011
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Photography Is Not a Crime
We’ve seen those posters titled, “If You See Something, Say Something” as well as others like it urging citizens to report people who are doing nothing but taking photos. Now we have the official “If You See Something, Film Something” poster which to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Incentives Matter
08-22-2011
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The Agitator
A New Orleans copr was arrested for writing more than 200 phantom seat belt citations. Why would he do that? Glenn Gross, was writing bogus tickets for seat-belt violations, allowing him to collect extra pay
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Standard & Poor's President Ousted?
08-22-2011
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LRC Blog
S&P's President, Deven Sharma, is stepping down. It is written that "Mr. Sharma was leaving the firm to pursue other opportunities." So the Indian who brought the U.S. to its knees is paying the price. That happened quicker than expected.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Expect bitcoin to be “banned” " expect the ban to be ignored
08-22-2011
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http://economicsandliberty.wordpress.com/
Man, by nature, wants to be free. He wants to choose how he lives his life. He wants to choose with whom he will associate. He wants to choose with whom he will trade. He wants to choose how his money is spent. Bitcoin gives him a greater ability to
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News Link • Conspiracies
$16,000,000,000,000+ in Secret "Loans" at 0% Interest
08-22-2011
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http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com/
According to the openly avowed Socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, the first time the Federal Reserve System has been officially audited by the Government Accounting Office and the results have been made public.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
How to Decorate a Man Room
08-22-2011
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http://artofmanliness.com/
There’s a good chance the first interior decorator was a guy, scratching pictures of a glorious hunt on the wall of his cave, trying to show off for his friends. This was the first man cave, if you will.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Incidents in China Suggest Further International Destabilization
08-22-2011
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http://www.the-spearhead.com/
Joe Biden’s recent trip to China is turning into a farce as petty diplomatic incidents erupt in Beijing.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Tiny Pocketbots Prepped for Combat
08-22-2011
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http://www.wired.com/
When the U.S. military first got serious about ground robots, it bought up a bunch of 42-pound machines called PackBots. The name implied that infantrymen would just throw the robots in their rucksacks.
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News Link • Economy - International
State of TradeHill [Bitcoin.com Announcement]
08-22-2011
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http://tradehillblog.com/
In the coming weeks we’re going to roll out a beta of our new wallet and merchant services on Bitcoin.com. Our goal with Bitcoin.com is to make Bitcoin more accessible to everyone in the world by developing an ultra-simple set of Bitcoin services.
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News Link • Economy - International
Keynes vs. Hayek BBC debate at LSE"Redux and Podcast
08-22-2011
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http://blog.mises.org/
Hayek vs Keynes at the LSE and Keynes vs. Hayek BBC debate at the London School of Economics originally held at LSE on July 26, 2011, and broadcast on the BBC on August 3, will be repeated on the BBC on Wednesday, August 24, at 9am (UK time, presumab
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News Link • Internet
A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
08-22-2011
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http://www.moserware.com/
A play in 4 acts. Please feel free to exit along with the stage character that best represents you. Take intermissions as you see fit.
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News Link • NeoCons
INTERVENTION IN LIBYA: A BAD IDEA IS STILL A BAD IDEA EVEN IF IT WORKS!
082211
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www.varight.com
The gloats are out! Wasn't intervention in Libya great! Gadhafi is out! Well, it is good that Gadhafi is out but even if a few bank robbers get away with it does not make bank robbery a good way to earn extra income!
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News Link • Libya
Libyan War: Gaddafi Falls ... A War For Oil and Gold?
08-22-2011
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Washingtonsblog.com
Of course, most Americans strongly opposed invasion of Libya or other Arab countries - but that is only because they didn't see the value of spilling our sons' and daughters' blood to secure oil and gold.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
HR 2819 Closes The Books On Any Questioning of the Osama bin Laden Raid
08-22-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Now the United States Congress is trying to lock down, once and for all, any further hint of question about the event with a new bill, HR 2819. The bill prohibits any “officer or employee of the Federal Government from providing information...
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News Link • Corruption
Bank of America: Does Someone Know Something?
08-22-2011
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Market-ticker.org
If it turns out that this is insider trading on material non-public information and BofA collapses - it is time for every American to cease working and go sit in Washington DC on the Mall - and refuse to leave until the FOMC, Treasury and Obama...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Boondoggle and white elephants
Perry’s Texas Jobs Boom: The Result of Big Government
08-22-2011
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Slate.com c/o Ben Johnson
TX Governor’s positive employment numbers largely due to growth in government and federal stimulus.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Many Baby Boomers Will Work As Wage Slaves Until They Drop Dead
08-22-2011
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InfoWars.com/
#1 According to a shocking AARP survey of Baby Boomers that are still in the workforce, 40 percent of them plan to work “until they drop”.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Gadget Lab Podcast: Google, Motorola and All Things Android
08-22-2011
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wired.com
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks about big news for Google, big news for Motorola and a tablet company attempting to reinvent itself with two new device offerings.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Boomer Demographic Stench Awakens MSM to New Reality
08-22-2011
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CNBC.com
The aging of the U.S. baby boom generation may slow an already weak recovery as boomers sell stocks to pay for retirement, according to research released Monday from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Voting and Elections
German Pirate Party On Course to Election Win
08-22-2011
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torrentfreak.com
With the elections for the Berlin state parliament just four weeks away, the German Pirate Party is on course to an impressive election win.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
The Difference Between A Statist and An Anarcho-Capitalist Society
08-22-2011
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dailyanarchist.com
A favorite pastime of mine is reading heated debates between statists, usually of the minarchist type, and anarcho-capitalists.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Tiger Woods Fails To Qualify For Sex With Dive Bar Waitress
08-22-2011
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www.onionsportsnetwork.com
The former number one sex-haver in the world continued the longest slump of his coital career, unable to bring home a local dive bar waitress and have sex with her.
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News Link • Marriage
Marriage in Ancient Hawai'i
08-22-2011
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hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.com
Before talking about marriage in ancient Hawaii, it is important to understand that Ancient Hawaiian society had a very strict adherence to the ancient religion - the Kapu (taboo) system - that dictated their actions and behavior in every single aspe
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Robotic arm and claw sculpted entirely from ShapeLock
08-22-2011
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hackaday.com
While a lot of people will turn to some sort of 3D plastic printer such as the MakerBot if they need plastic parts built, [Alexey] didn’t have access to one.
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News Link • How To
How to Decorate a Man Room
08-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com
There’s a good chance the first interior decorator was a guy, scratching pictures of a glorious hunt on the wall of his cave, trying to show off for his friends. This was the first man cave, if you will.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
"A sort of PC": how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work)
08-22-2011
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arstechnica.com
For the first time in fifteen or more years, Redmond faces a genuine challenge to its Windows desktop monopoly. The threat isn't coming from Linux or from Mac OS X or from any other operating system.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
I Want One Of These!
08-22-2011
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www.dvorak.org
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water ...
Incredible remote controlled flying fish emerge from the world of awesome!
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Journalism school teaches students pre-digital newspaper production techniques
08-22-2011
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boingboing.net
Students in the Florida Atlantic University J-school produced a newspaper using (mostly) pre-computer technologies, composing on manual typewriters, pasting up with X-Acto blades and rubber cement, shooting on film and developing in a darkroom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stop Clinging to False Hope and Face Reality
08-22-2011
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www.thedailybell.com
All week long we have been witnessing a breakdown in global markets, or perhaps better stated " general public confidence. Gee, why would that be, we wonder? Why is it that the general public is not so easily convinced that all will be okay?
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News Link • How To
Weekly Roundup 8/20/2011
08-22-2011
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hackaday.com
In case you missed them, here are our biggest posts from the past week.
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News Link • Internet
As Governments Get Censorship Happy, New Technologies Popping Up To Route Around That
08-22-2011
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www.techdirt.com
We've been discussing more and more movements from various governments towards censoring the internet, whether it's things as simple as "filters" of "bad sites" or more recent efforts by governments to shut down speech they don't like from people the
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: August 13-19
08-22-2011
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lifehacker.com
This week we learned a few tricks for surviving a bad job, removed forgotten security tags from our clothing (without ruining our stuff), learned all about how to make the most of our routers, and more. Here's a look back.
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News Link • Agriculture
The Late Movies: Time-Lapse Plants
08-22-2011
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www.mentalfloss.com
Watch ALL 8 videos: You know the old saying, “a watched pot never boils”? Plants are like that. They grow and change slowly, so you stop paying attention and then they surprise you by growing seemingly overnight.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
6 More Ridley Scott Films Ready for Sci-Fi Reboots
08-22-2011
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wired.com
Once he finishes with Alien spinoff Prometheus, Ridley Scott will get to work on some kind of new Blade Runner film " a sequel, prequel, reboot or something.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Video: Thor, Captain America Fight in Avengers Shoot
08-22-2011
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wired.com
New video from The Avengers shoot captures Captain America and Thor in action as Joss Whedon filmed the superheroes on location in Cleveland.
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News Link • Activism
Silver Circle is HIRING!
08-22-2011
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Silver Underground - Silver Circle's Blog
About us:
Lineplot is an animation production company in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA. We are hard at work creating a feature-length thriller-romance film, Silver Circle, to be released in late 2011. The film unfolds inside an inflationary economi
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space
08-22-2011
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www.newscientist.com
A theory of reality beyond Einstein's universe is taking shape " and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gold: Is It Invincible?
08-22-2011
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lewrockwell.com
Loss of confidence in the dollar is accelerating and it effectively sits now on what amounts to a trap door. US debt downgraded by S&P was a big story.
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
What College Guys Think about Sex and Relationships
08-22-2011
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www.hookingupsmart.com
The blog Her Campus, A Collegiette’s Guide to Life recently undertook The Ultimate College Guy Survey, asking guys in college for their thoughts on a wide range of subjects relating to sex and relationships.
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Lemmingly, We Roll Along
08-21-2011
Ray McGovern
“Two lemmings are chatting while standing in the line to the cliff. One says to the other, ‘Of course we have to go over the edge. Anything else would dishonor all the lemmings that have gone before us.’”
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