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Date Sent: 2010-12-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 29, 2010 PM edition |
Baby Boomers Near 65 With Retirements In Jeopardy
While the gov't is ramping up its money spending, it's also limiting
its ability to collect -- 2011 Will Bring More de Facto Decriminalization of Elite
Financial Fraud -- Kathy Kelly - is co-coordinator of Voices for
Creative Nonviolence -- S 510: FDA and Homeland Security To Control
Global Food Safety -- US Home Foreclosures Jump in Third Quarter of
2010 -- Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great
Depression? -- Foreclosure-Gate: Impossible
Foreclosure - Never Late on a Payment -- Oil Juggernaut Unleashed -- Nouriel Roubini: 'Housing Prices Can Only
Move Down' -- Study: Conservatives have larger ‘fear center’ in
brain -- Gary Shilling: Now House
Prices Will Now Drop Another 20% -- If House Prices Keep
Falling This Fast, The Economy Is Screwed -- Pentagon's revolving door guarantees
conflicts of interest -- Israel Hardens Repression as
Palestinian Recognition Increases -- America's Gulf Disaster:
Accidental or Deliberate? -- New research reveals your hand soap could
kill you
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club WON'T meet
on 1/1/2011, but rather on 1/8/2011
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Baby Boomers Near 65 With Retirements In Jeopardy
12-29-2010
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Finance.yahoo.com/
Baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they're hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak jailed for Gaza blockade bicycle protest
12-29-2010
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In January 2008, Pollak participated, along with 30 others, in a mass bicycle ride through Tel Aviv. Police arrested Pollak but allowed the rest of the activists to continue with the protest, his lawyer said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
US declined to investigate suspected Mossad assassination, cable shows
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
The US government lied about a request from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government to probe the death of a Hamas military leader. Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was assassinated in a Dubai hotel in January 2010. Dubai officials have long suspecte
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
In the middle of Europe, a democracy introduces press censorship
12-29-2010
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Rawstory
Hungary's recently elected right-wing government has introduced a law demanding -- under threat of fines and even shut-down -- that news sources be "fair and balanced," to borrow a phrase from a US news network. The move has critics fearing that it c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army Waiting List Near Record Levels With High Unemployment, GI Bill
12-29-2010
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ABC News
The Army entered the new recruiting year in October having fulfilled 50 percent, or half its targeting goals for next year.
The number is a near record for the Army. The last time in recent decades the waiting list was so long was 1996, when the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Satellite Ground Water Measurement
12-29-2010
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arclein
Now, scientists at Stanford have found a way to cheaply and effectively monitor aquifer levels in agricultural regions using data from satellites that are already in orbit mapping the shape of Earth's surface with millimeter precision.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Bayer Squirms on Colony Collapse Disorder
12-29-2010
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arclein
To make a long story short, the EPA eventually accepted Bayer's study and granted clothianidin full registration in early 2010. But as I reported earlier, a leaked document (PDF) from November shows that two EPA scientists had reviewed that Bayer st
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Oil at Ninety
12-29-2010
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arclein
So your friendly neighborhood fuel gang has been breaking its output limit by 1.934 million barrels " everyday, all year long.
With crude at its highest price in two years, overproduction allows OPEC members to boost profits without formally changin
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Woman Who Protested TSA Pat-Downs At OKC Airport Banned From Flying
12-29-2010
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The woman who made national headlines for her near-naked protest at the airport in Oklahoma City is back and once again banned from flying.
A YouTube video put Tammy Banovac in the national spotlight. Banovac says she went through security wearing
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
2011 Will Bring More de Facto Decriminalization of Elite Financial Fraud
12-28-2010
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Huffington Post, William K. Black
The role of the criminal justice system with regard to financial fraud by elite bankers in 2011 is likely to reprise its role last decade -- de facto decriminalization. The Galleon investigation of insider trading at hedge funds will take much of the
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'
12-29-2010
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AFP
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.
Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather tha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
S 510: FDA and Homeland Security To Control Global Food Safety
12-29-2010
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NaturalNews.com/
Believe it or not, the global "food safety" plan is to be developed under consultation to the Department of Homeland Security as well as the U.S. Treasury.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
US Home Foreclosures Jump in Third Quarter of 2010
12-29-2010
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CNBC.com
The regulators said one reason for the increase in foreclosures is that banks have "exhausted" options for keeping many delinquent borrowers in their homes through programs such as loan modifications.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
The 2010 "Are You Serious?" Awards
12-27-2010
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Conn Hallinan
Each year the column Dispatches From The Edge awards news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?” Here are 2010’s winners.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Weds. Dec 29th 2010
12-29-2010
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LewRockwell.com
This Is What We Are For - Armor Yourself Against the Predator State, Charles Goyette talks to Lew Rockwell - 2011 Is 1984 - Promises and Riots - Multiple Flags and Foreign Residence, Simon Black on where he went and what he learned this year.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now
12-29-2010
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
#8 Back in 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was actually arrested by police for farting in class.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?
12-29-2010
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NakedCapitalism.com/ & Washingtonblog.com
The length and depth of the current housing recession is rivaling the Great Depression’s real estate downturn, and, with encouraging signs fading, will easily eclipse it in the coming months.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Impossible Foreclosure - Never Late on a Payment
12-29-2010
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Ritholtz.com
The assembly line perjury the banks have committed are harder to hide in mass foreclosure venues. Which is what makes this touching Christmas Eve story all the more peculiar:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Oil Juggernaut Unleashed
12-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Over the next year we are likely to be buried in a deluge of excuses, half-truths, and lies, all meant to divert attention away from the word “inflation” as the masses begin to question just what the hell is going on.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Nouriel Roubini: 'Housing Prices Can Only Move Down'
12-29-2010
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CNBC.com
"That tax credit stole demand from the future and its expiration led to another 30% fall in home sales, pushing Case & Shiller lower for the last few months," Roubini wrote in a text message earlier this morning.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Starchild: "We Need a Libertarian Che Guevara"
12-28-2010
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Reason.tv
Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh sat down with Starchild, who recently ran forSan Francisco School Board as the Libertarian candidate, at the Libertopia 2010 conference in Hollywood. [I nominate Starchild! He's already the libertarian superhero!]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Political Parties
Study: Conservatives have larger ‘fear center’ in brain
12/28/2010
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The Raw Story
A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were
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Lola Flores
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News Link • Housing
Gary Shilling: Now House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%
12-29-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
A funny"or not so funny"thing happened on the way to housing recovery...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
If House Prices Keep Falling This Fast, The Economy Is Screwed
12-29-2010
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BusinessInsider.com/
Housing guru Robert Shiller says the decline in October's Case-Shiller house-price index was much worse than expected (over 10% annualized).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolving Door
Pentagon's revolving door guarantees conflicts of interest
12-28-2010
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Meteor Blades
From 2004 through 2008, 80 percent of retiring three- and four-star officers went to work as consultants or defense executives, according to the Globe analysis. That compares with less than 50 percent who followed that path a decade earlier, from 199
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
New research reveals your hand soap could kill you
12-28-2010
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Terrence Aym
Death by hand soap? It's no joke and worried researchers are trying to get the word out to the public about this latest health risk. What is this stuff? It's a chemical agent that's antimicrobial called triclosan. It's toxic. It's a registered p
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Terrence Aym
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