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Date Sent: 2011-01-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, January 29, 2011 |
Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps -- Specter of currency war rears its head at Davos
Army Leaks Hit Piece on Bradley Manning -- The CBO Smokes Crack: The Wild Assumptions That Doom Americans -- "The Fed Is Now In The Business Of Manipulating The Stock Market... -- Australian Floods Cause Drought in the Coal Market -- Foreclosure-Gate: BofA Panic Attack Over Halt Of Nevada Foreclosures -- Foreclosure-Gate: NY Times Blames Crisis on “Mania”, Meaning Victims -- Biometric Clampdown: Tijuana debut for Mexican I.D. card program -- Paul Craig Roberts: The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread -- Watch Protests In Egypt Online Live (Streaming) -- Pirate Radio USA—Take Back the Airwaves -- Super Metallic Glass Created -- I can’t buy local: I don’t live in China! -- Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group -- Video Live Stream From Egypt
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Renewing the Patriot Act While America Sleeps
01-29-2011
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LewRockwell.com
The Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the ten original amendments " the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments " and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Specter of currency war rears its head at Davos
01-29-2011
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news.yahoo.com/
A fight is looming between rich and poor countries over the value of the dollar and other key currencies, as governments use monetary tricks to boost their national recovery at the expense of other nations, political and business leaders warned Satur
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Army Leaks Hit Piece on Bradley Manning
01-28-2011
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video
Last night’s DoD press conference on Bradley Manning was a bizarre affair. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell was snappish, hectoring and ill-prepared. They were clearly thrown when Jim Miklaszewski reported that the Quantico brig commander acted
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
The CBO Smokes Crack: The Wild Assumptions That Doom Americans
01-29-2011
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
They expect total revenues to rise 43% in the next 2 years alone and 129.6% over the coming decade (from $2.162 trillion in 2010 to $4.963 trillion in 2021).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
"The Fed Is Now In The Business Of Manipulating The Stock Market...
01-29-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The New York Branch of the Fed is leveraged more than 80 to 1. Meaning, that a loss of asset value of less than 1.5% would send it into receivership if it were a different kind of institution...The Fed is now in the business of manipulating the...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix Led The Nation In Bank Repossessions For 2010
01-29-2011
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thetruthaboutmortgage.com/
The hard-hit region led the nation in homes actually lost to foreclosure, and saw the numbers rise 17 percent from 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: BofA Panic Attack Over Halt Of Nevada Foreclosures
01-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
Mr. Market has woken up to the fact that the Charlotte bank is particularly exposed to litigation risk. We were very critical of BofA’s purchase of Countrywide. As we said in January 2008:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: NY Times Blames Crisis on “Mania”, Meaning Victims
01-29-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
But I wonder. Had there been a Dutch Tulip Inquiry Commission nearly four centuries ago, it would no doubt have found tulip salesmen who fraudulently persuaded people to borrow money they could never pay back to buy tulips.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometric Clampdown: Tijuana debut for Mexican I.D. card program
01-29-2011
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signonsandiego.com/news
Tijuana was the setting Monday for the launch of an identity card program aimed at minors across Mexico, a move that authorities said would reduce paperwork as well as protect against child trafficking, prostitution and other forms of abuse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Paul Craig Roberts: The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread
01-29-2011
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InformationClearingHouse.info
While people in Tunisia and Egypt have taken to the streets in attempts to gain their liberty, Americans are losing their liberty with minimal protest.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Withdrawing Consent
01-29-2011
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Antiwar.com
The modern West has elevated democracy from a simple method of decision-making into an arcane form of political religion. Yet, ironically, it was the West that undermined that concept of "democracy" the most.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Watch Protests In Egypt Online Live (Streaming)
01/29/2011
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therealnewsnow
Egyptian citizens have taken to the streets of Cairo. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have launched an all out attack on the Egyptian government and police fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons.
The protests ha
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The Real News
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News Link • Constitution
Pirate Radio USA"Take Back the Airwaves
01-29-2011
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Becky Chandler
With the governmental killing of the Internet in Egypt, Americans should wake up and demand that we be given access to the airwaves. I do not understand how it became the property of the federal government to dole out in the first place. Pirate Radio
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Science
Sebtal on Big Science Fusion
01-29-2011
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arclein
Plasmas are hideously non-linear and difficult to model. We still don't know exactly how burning plasmas will behave in fusion reactors. Such models, being horribly non-linear and massively computer intensive, and can always be improved. Sure, the p
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Super Metallic Glass Created
01-29-2011
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arclein
Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
A New Measure of Intelligence
01-29-2011
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arclein
(NaturalNews) Observing the various realms of science, medicine, experts and world events, I've come to the conclusion that our modern definition of "intelligence" (IQ) is seriously lacking. The label of "high IQ" is typically assigned to those
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rogue Cancer Gene Discovered
01-29-2011
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arclein
Surinder Soond, who worked on the study, said it was a "novel and exciting approach to treating cancer and the spread of tumours which holds great potential".
"The challenge now is to identify a potent drug that will get inside cancer cells and
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Scary Kathleen Sebelius & Obama Administration Just Make Up Their Own Obamacare Stats?
01-28-2011
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www.drscoundrels.com
The scary, scary Secretary of Health and Human Services, Madame Kathleen Sebelius told members of a senate committee yesterday that Obamacare is terrific for encouraging youngsters to be entrepreneurs! Not only that, but it has ALREADY created ove
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I can’t buy local: I don’t live in China!
01-29-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Buy local? Ok! I will do that! Wait…..this says product of China, product of Brazil, product of Mexico, product of Egypt, Guatemala, Argentina ………where is the stuff produced in the US? How am I supposed to buy local to support my local economy when
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Government Waste
Are You Letting Leftist Fear Stop Medicare & Soc Sec Reform?
01282011
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www.drscoundrels.com
What is it with the left and their attempts to make sure that nothing the right does or says EVER gets any credit or viewing - we just wrote an article detailing the attacks on real viable cuts and now attacks on fixes for two entitlement programs do
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Environment
'James Bond' volcano erupts in Japan
01-28-2011
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Terrence Aym
SPECTRE's volcano has erupted in Japan, but James Bond and girlfriend Kissy Suzuki are nowhere to be found. Although the supe-rvillian Blofeld's gigantic hidden space complex lay deep in the bowels of the extinct volcano in the 1967 movie, “You Onl
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
January CBO Report Belies Jobs And Economy Talk From Left
01282011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Have you seen all the talking heads coming out and talking about all the jobs grown and how we're in a recovery? The CBO has come out with a report that has backed up what many of us have known or suspected - that this "stimulus" hasn't been, tha
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
AND THIS IS A TORY GOVERNMENT? SO-CALLED EDUCATION FREEDOM IS MORE STATISM!
012811
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www.varight.com
The Conservative Coalition government in the UK has called for liberty in education. But their idea of liberty is still extreme statism; having government monitors of free schools to make sure they do not have extreme ideas like creationism. The le
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group
01-28-2011
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Feathered Bastard
On the day that state Senator Russell Pearce's insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment was being submitted in the state legislature by his cronies
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Internet
Egypt’s Internet Kill Switch: Coming To America
01-28-2011
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prisonplanet.com
In response to widespread protests and mass unrest, the authoritarian Egyptian government has completely shut down the country’s access to the internet, eliminating the use of social networking websites, other effective tools of communication and org
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Under ‘emergency’ for decades, Egypt’s special powers mirrored in post-9/11 US
01-28-2011
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Rawstory
Indefinite detention. Ubiquitous torture. Secret courts. Special authority for police interventions. The complete absence of privacy, even in one's own home. Astute followers of American politics might think those items a dog whistle, evoking the wor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Bill introduced to full legalize pot in Maine
01-28-2011
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You Tube
Rep. Diane Russell of Portland has sponsored a bill that would make Maine the first state to fully legalize marijuane for its citizens. Washington Country Sheriff Donnie Smith questions the effectiveness of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Science
Astronomers now predict killer asteroid will hit Earth 2036
01-28-2011
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Terrence Aym
Grim astronomers in Russia have recalculated the trajectory of the ominous asteroid Apophis and now predict it will slam into Earth on April 13, 2036. An asteroid struck the Yucatan basin 65 million years ago wiping out the dinosaurs, changing the cl
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Whistleblowers
WikiLeaks rival launches new secret-spilling site
01-28-2011
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news.yahoo.com
A former WikiLeaks spokesman launched a rival website Friday, saying he planned to give whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid the Size of the Titanic Rocked Jupiter
01-28-2011
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news.yahoo.com
The object that plowed into Jupiter in 2009, creating a giant scar, was most likely an asteroid the size of the Titanic, rather than a comet, the latest evidence suggests.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
UN's Ban to US: take the lead on climate change
01-28-2011
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news.yahoo.com
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the United States and Europe to take the lead in combating climate change, rather than waiting for others to act.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Obama: Time For Fighting Health-Care Overhaul Has Passed
01-28-2011
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online.wsj.com
President Barack Obama on Friday defended his health-care law in the face of continued Republican-led calls for repeal, declaring that the time to fight the overhaul has passed.
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Sierra Hancock
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