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Date Sent: 2011-01-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, January 28, 2011 PM edition |
Justin Raimondo: The Revolutionary Wave -- ATF Approved Sales to Mexican Gun Runners
China rating agency blames U.S. for "credit war" -- Brad Friedman -
Obama SotU - Gun Control / Stewart Rhodes - Nullify Now - Oath Keepers
-- Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew -- Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service -- U.S., Japan told time running out to deal with debt -- Exclusive: The Next Generation of WikiLeaks -- REPEAL? AZ State Legiscritters Want Photo Ticketing Ban? -- So if the dollar completely tanks, what does than really mean for you personally? -- Investment fund manager legend, Eric Sprott, says put 60% of your investments in SILVER -- Is Barry Soetoro About to Sell Off American Infrastructure to China? -- Why They Torture (video) -- Metabolic Structure and Ecological Civilization -- Sarah in 2012? -- The Military, A Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable -- Karl
Denninger Questions Whether Machine Guns Were Banned in 1986 -- Karl
Denninger: Florida Libertarian Party Is A Disorganized Mess -- Bush's & House of Saud: Carlyle Group world's largest private equity manager -- What Recovery: New-home sales in 2010 fall to lowest in 47 years -- Organic Beef To Become Extinct Thanks to Approval of GMO Alfalfa -- Housing Propaganda: Recovery May Take Five Years-Plus -- Government Study Into Financial Crisis Refuses To Use The Word "Crime" -- Mindless Propaganda: Phoenix Housing Market Prices to Recover by 2015 -- Political Prisoner Ahmad Sa'adat Update -- As protests swell from Yemen to Egypt, Middle East faces uncertainty -- China rabbit cartoon blocked after skewering govt -- Britain rolls back some unpopular post-9/11 security restrictions
Jordan Page.....a father once more
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News Link • Corruption
Justin Raimondo: The Revolutionary Wave
01-28-2011
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Antiwar.com
Unable to comprehend, or sympathize with, the plight of the world’s miserable masses, encased in a bubble where the worst crisis they have to personally face is a broken chair lift at Davos, these preening Louis XIVs and Marie Antoinettes are in...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
China rating agency blames U.S. for "credit war"
01-28-2011
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Reuters
The United States is effectively printing cheap dollars as it implements an ultra-loose policy to spur its flagging economy, setting the stage for "a world credit war", a Chinese rating agency said. Quantitative easing has "eroded the legitimacy of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew
01-28-2011
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AP
CAIRO " Egypt's military deployed on the streets of Cairo to enforce a nighttime curfew as the sun set Friday on a day of rioting and violent chaos that was a major escalation in the challenge to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Foreign Policy
How the U.S. can respond to Egypt's Internet blackout
01-28-2011
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WashingtonPost.com
The Egyptian government cut off the country's Internet access late Thursday night ahead of what was expected to be the fourth and most intense day of protests against the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, making it virtually impossible for
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Internet
Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service
01-28-2011
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NYTimes.com
Egypt has cut off nearly all Internet traffic into and out of the country in the largest blackout of its kind, according to firms that monitor international data flows. Cellphone networks were also disrupted.
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S., Japan told time running out to deal with debt
01-28-2011
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Reuters
Japan and the United States faced new pressure to confront their swollen budget deficits as the IMF and rating agencies demanded more evidence they can bring their public debts under control. The G7's 2 biggest economies needed to spell out credible
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Exclusive: The Next Generation of WikiLeaks
01-28-2011
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Reuters
All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting. Like their forerunner, the fledgling whistle-blowing sites are a chaotic mixture of complex systems engineering, earnest campaigning, muckraki
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
REPEAL? AZ State Legiscritters Want Photo Ticketing Ban?
1-28-2010
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CameraFRAUD
(From the 'about damn time' department...) SB 1352 appears to be written as a photo ticketing "doomsday" bill, effectively ending the business practices of two of the largest photo radar companies on their corporate home turf. Too good to be true
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David Alpha
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
So if the dollar completely tanks, what does than really mean for you personally?
01-28-2011
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www.financialsense.com
This is a rather long-winded and dry analysis, but the summation near the end is rather informative, and not nice.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Investment fund manager legend, Eric Sprott, says put 60% of your investments in SILVER
01-28-2011
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www.theglobeandmail.com
HOW I WOULD INVEST A $100,000 WINDFALL: I would probably put 80% in precious metals. ADVICE FOR INVESTORS: They should be in fear of the whole financial system collapsing.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Is Ron Paul taking the Neocon bait? Declares he is considering open Senate seat in TX.
01-28-2011
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www.upi.com
The 2012 Texas Senate contest began two weeks ago when Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said she would not seek re-election. "I'm just waiting and seeing what comes about, who files and what they do," Paul said.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Obama Administration
Is Barry Soetoro About to Sell Off American Infrastructure to China?
01-28-2011
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WSJ.com
DAVOS, Switzerland"Key Chinese companies are considering stepped-up investment in the U.S., particularly in infrastructure, and the White House is encouraging them to move ahead.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Propaganda Chart of the Month: GDP Shows US Out Of Recovery Stage
01-28-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The US economy is no longer technically in recovery.
As Mitsubishi Financial's Ellen Beeson Zentner points out in a morning note, with today's GDP report, we're officially in expansion, having passed the old high.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Torture
Why They Torture (video)
01-28-2011
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The International Libertarian
Last Saturday the weekly demonstrations for and against the wars in West Chester, PA were joined by some special visitors. One was an activist I only know as Barbara advocating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba. This is a US mi
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Agriculture
Metabolic Structure and Ecological Civilization
01-28-2011
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arclein
Given the overwhelming harm being done to the world’s environment and to its people, it is essential today to consider how we might organize a truly ecological civilization"one that exists in harmony with natural systems"instead of trying to overwhel
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Solar Eclipse Caught by Satellite
01-28-2011
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arclein
An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is slightly farther from Earth than usual and appears slightly smaller. When it moves between the Earth and sun, it covers the center of the sun, leaving a bright, fiery ring, or annulus, at the edge.
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Microbe 34,000 Years Old
01-28-2011
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arclein
hey're aliiiiiiiive! But difficult to spot. The bacteria are the tiny, pin-prick-looking objects, dwarfed by the larger, spherical algal cells. The colored spots come from pigments the algae produce, carotenoids, still vibrant 30,000 years on. Credi
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robert klein
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Sarah in 2012?
01-28-2011
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arclein
Among the most astonishing phenomena of the current political scene in the U.S. is the relentless percussion of hatred, animadversion, revilement and outright dissimulation hurled against Sarah Palin"the mirror image of the orgy of adulation which Ba
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
The Military: A Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable
01-27-2011
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Andrew J. Bacevich, CBS News
In defense circles, “cutting” the Pentagon budget has once again become a topic of conversation. Americans should not confuse that talk with reality. Any cuts exacted will at most reduce the rate of growth
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Gun Rights
Karl Denninger Questions Whether Machine Guns Were Banned in 1986
01-28-2011
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Market-ticker.org
Watch the video. It is quite clear that not only did the voice vote on the amendment fail but in addition it appears, if someone hasn't tampered with this video, that there was an electronic recorded vote that went down on the question as well.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Karl Denninger: Florida Libertarian Party Is A Disorganized Mess
01-28-2011
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Market-ticker.org
See, it's easy to talk. It's hard to do. But it's doubly hard to do when you have no coherent message, nobody in the leadership who's willing to stand and be forceful, and when the leadership positions are that "this isn't the state party...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's & House of Saud: Carlyle Group worlds largest private equity manager
01-28-2011
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Washingtonpost.com/ & Blacklistednews.com
"By partnering with sophisticated global investors, Carlyle is better able to provide the range of products and services our investors seek," Carlyle co-founder David M. Rubenstein said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
What Recovery: New-home sales in 2010 fall to lowest in 47 years
01-28-2011
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AZcentral.com
Buyers purchased the fewest number of new homes last year on records going back 47 years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Organic Beef To Become Extinct Thanks to Approval of GMO Alfalfa
01-28-2011
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westernfarmpress.com/
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced its decision to grant non-regulated status for alfalfa that has been genetically engineered to be resistant to the herbicide commercially known as Roundup.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing Propaganda: Recovery May Take Five Years-Plus
01-28-2011
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CNBC.com
One problem with this math could be that Schnapp assumes there will be very little income growth because of high unemployment so the only way to get back to normal is to lower the debt side of the equation through foreclosures.
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News Link • Housing
Government Study Into Financial Crisis Refuses To Use The Word "Crime"
01-28-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
During their unveiling of the FCIC report, they used words like deregulation, leverage, imprudent risk-taking, reckless behavior, failures at credit agencies, and failed regulators. Left out were words like crime, fraud, looting...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mindless Propaganda: Phoenix Housing Market Prices to Recover by 2015
01-28-2011
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AZcentral.com
The latest forecasts for the housing market's recovery have been pushed out by another year because of slower-than-expected job and population growth and a bigger glut of home foreclosures than anyone expected.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
As protests swell from Yemen to Egypt, Middle East faces uncertainty
01-28-2011
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Washington Post
A wave of political unrest threatening Middle Eastern governments grew ominously larger Thursday as new protests shook impoverished Yemen and Egyptian authorities braced for massive anti-government demonstrations set to begin Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China rabbit cartoon blocked after skewering govt
01-28-2011
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AFP
A blood-soaked cartoon that marks the Year of the Rabbit by portraying a bunny revolt against brutal tiger overlords has proven an online hit, with its thinly veiled stab at China's communist rulers. The "South Park"-style video by animator Wang Bo,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Britain rolls back some unpopular post-9/11 security restrictions
01-28-2011
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Rawstory
[while we get the Patriot Act renewed] Britain's government announced it was overturning some of their unpopular anti-terrorism laws. The measures, put in place after Sept. 11, 2001, were widely thought to be some of the toughest in the West.
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Powell Gammill
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