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Date Sent: 2010-12-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, December 8, 2010 PM edition |
Hero or terrorist, the Assange effect represents a real grassroots Internet rebellion
Former CPS extradition specialist predicts Sweden will find it 'very difficult' to get Assange -- H1N1 vaccine linked to 700 percent increase in miscarriages --
Icelandic IT firm to sue Visa & Mastercard over WikiLeaks cut-off
-- Visa and Mastercard both received lobbying support from the
Department of State under President Obama -- S.510 is alive and funded by the House! -- Tax Appeals Swamp U.S. Cities, Towns as Property Prices Plunge --
Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview -- ‘Tis the Season of
DDoS – WikiLeaks Edition -- ‘All-out cyber war’ erupts over WikiLeaks:
‘Anonymous’ hackers take MasterCard offline --
SpaceX commercial craft heads into space -- XM-25 Rifle in Action --
Food Stamp Usage Up 16.2% Nationally, Up Over 20% In 13 States -- Janet
Tavakoli: Housing Finance Was Always "Fraud As A Business" -- Dream
Act, Scam Act: How you can stop it
AZ: Today: Ernest Hancock will hold a meeting to brainstorm and discuss
future of the workshop -- Andrea Garcia's Activist Appreciation Dinner,
Dec. 11; Bill of
Rights Day celebration, Dec,. 15; Robert Levy, Cato
Institute luncheon, Dec. 16
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Hero or terrorist, the Assange effect represents a real grassroots Internet rebellion
12-08-2010
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www.nydailynews.com
To his detractors, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is another Osama Bin Laden.
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News Link • World News
Former CPS extradition specialist predicts Sweden will find it 'very difficult' to get WikiL
12/08/10
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Guardian.co.uk
A former extradition specialist for the Crown Prosecution Service today predicted it would be "very difficult" for Sweden to get the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, sent back to face sexual assault allegations.
Raj Joshi, a former head of the
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
H1N1 vaccine linked to 700 percent increase in miscarriages
12-08-2010
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naturalnews.com
Recent data presented to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Children's Vaccines has revealed some shocking information about the effects of the H1N1 / swine flu vaccine on pregnant women.
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News Link • Free Speech
Icelandic IT firm to sue Visa & Mastercard over WikiLeaks cut-off
12/08/10
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Beehive City
Icelandic IT company Datacell today said it will take legal action against Visa Europe and Mastercard in light of both companies decisions to cease processing payments associated with the WikiLeaks website.
Datacell said they will use legal mecha
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Conspiracies
Visa and Mastercard both received lobbying support from the Department of State under President Obam
12/08/10
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wikileaks.ch
A cable from the Moscow embassy, dated 1st February 2010, details a new Russian card processing law which the embassy said would “disadvantage U.S businesses”, and urged senior US officials to take action.
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Max Keiser: Crash JP Morgan - Buy Silver!
12-08-2010
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youtube.com
Max Keiser - financial analyst and host of RT's Keiser Report - has launched a viral campaign to bring down JP Morgan - dubbed by Keiser as main global financial terrorists.
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News Link • Gold and Silver
BUY SILVER CRASH JP MORGAN
12-08-2010
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youtube.com
JP MORGAN AND HSBC HAVE BEEN MANIPULATING THE PRICE OF SILVER. THIS IS FRAUD! THEY ARE NOW BEING SUED FOR DAMAGES! IF EVERYONE BUYS 1 SILVER COIN WE CAN CRASH JP MORGAN. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW
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News Link • Whistleblowers
All-out cyber war’ erupts over WikiLeaks: ‘Anonymous’ hackers take MasterCard offline
12-08-2010
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RawStory.com
MasterCard confirms service interruption for cardholders
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News Link • Food
S.510 is alive and funded by the House!
12-08-2010
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Farm Wars
Just when you thought it was safe to relax a bit about S.510, here it is, alive and rolling through Congress like a fast-pitched baseball. It seems that nothing short of an act of God will stop this bill.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Tax Appeals Swamp U.S. Cities, Towns as Property Prices Plunge
12-08-2010
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bloomberg.com
A fiscal flood that threatens to swamp local government budgets across the U.S. overflows from file cabinets in the office of Patty Halm, chair of the Michigan Tax Tribunal.
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Rolling Stone releases Lennon's final interview
12-08-2010
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apnews.myway.com
Three days before he was gunned down, John Lennon complained about his critics - saying they were just interested in "dead heroes" - and talked optimistically about his family and future, musing that he had "plenty of time" to accomplish some of his
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Wikileaks: Stop Us? You'll Have to Shut Down the Web
12-08-2010
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abcnews.go.com
Julian Assange Jailed on Charges: Politically Motivated, or Just Convenient?
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News Link • Activism
‘Tis the Season of DDoS " WikiLeaks Edition
12-08-2010
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PandaLabs Security Blog
Mastercard.com is still the main target. 7 hours of downtime and counting. The amount of participants in the attackers chat room have soared to over 2200 people and there are currently over 1,700 computers in the voluntary botnet.
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News Link • Activism
Operation Payback cripples MasterCard site in revenge for WikiLeaks ban
12-08-2010
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guardian.co.uk
In an attack referred to as Operation Payback, a group of online activists calling themselves Anonymous appear to have orchestrated a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on the financial site, bringing its service to a halt.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Activism
‘All-out cyber war’ erupts over WikiLeaks: ‘Anonymous’ hackers take MasterCard offline
12-08-2010
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Raw Story
"Please be advised that MasterCard SecureCode Support has detected a service disruption to the MasterCard Directory Server," MasterCard said. "The Directory Server service has been failed over to a secondary site."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX commercial craft heads into space
12-08-2010
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cnn.com
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida Wednesday morning, marking what could be a significant step toward commercial space travel.
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News Link • Gun Rights
XM-25 Rifle in Action
12-08-2010
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foxnews.com
The U.S. army has a high-tech new tool: The XM-25 rifle, seen here in action
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News Link • Food
KFC To Expand in Africa
12-08-2010
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slatest.slate.com
KFC is looking to expand across Africa's pristine fast-food frontier, reports the Wall Street Journal. KFC's parent company Yum Brands hopes to open 600 more restaurants across the continent and double its revenue to $2 billion by 2014.
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News Link • Activism
Wikileaks As Systems Disruption
12-08-2010
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C4SS / Kevin Carson
If the National Security State continues this strategy, it’s only a matter of time until the State Department falls to Wikileaks and the helicopters evacuate Hillary Clinton from the roof of the Harry S. Truman Building.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Whistleblowers
With Assange Arrested, Accusations Fly
12-08-2010
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slatest.slate.com
Julian Assange is in custody in the U.K. until at least December 14. But where is he headed and what exactly is he accused of?
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News Link • China
Forget the Nobel, China Has Its Own Prize
12-08-2010
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slatest.slate.com
China will bestow its own peace prize in Beijing on Thursday, the day before the Nobel Prize is awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The "Confucius Peace Prize""which was invented this year
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News Link • Food
Food Stamp Usage Up 16.2% Nationally, Up Over 20% In 13 States
12-08-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com & WSJ.com
SNAP numbers for September just came on line, 42,911,042 - up from 42,389,614 in August, an increase of 521,428 in one month. SNAP numbers in Arizona went up 15.8 percent in one year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Janet Tavakoli: Housing Finance Was Always "Fraud As A Business" Part 2
12-08-2010
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Market-ticker.org
It really doesn't get more damning than this..... "Fraud As a Business Model", the slides from her presentation delivered today to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Supervision Summit.
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News Link • Housing
Janet Tavakoli: Housing Finance Was Always "Fraud As A Business Model"
12-08-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
CDOs and CDOs squared were just "fraud to cover-up fraud," according to Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Walmart & DHS: Patriots Are Insane To Question Authority Of The State
12-08-2010
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InfoWars.com/
Don’t be surprised when ignorant Wal-Mart shoppers begin to report people who wear t-shirts with political slogans or ones that carry an image of the upside-down American flag, or merely individuals who talk about the Constitution...
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News Link • Events: America
Take a Stand for Peace!
12-07-2010
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STOP THESE WARS
Join the largest U.S. veteran-led civil resistance to war December 16.
Rally at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., at 10 am
March to the White House for civil disobedience.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
From Bad To Worse: The Economy Today, And Tomorrow
12-08-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If you thought that stimulus packages from the Fed would actually go into the U.S. economy, you were greatly mistaken. The largest recipients of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve were foreign banks.
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News Link • Food
Democrats attempt to revive food safety bill
12-08-2010
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Washington Post
Food safety legislation stalled by a constitutional snag could be revived as part of a giant year-end budget bill by adding the legislation to a catchall spending bill unveiled early Wednesday.
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News Link • Climate Change
Rex Murphy on Cancun
12-08-2010
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arclein
They’re toasting their pasty, righteous, caterwauling epidermi on the golden hot sands of Cancun, Mexico, flopped out amid the bikinis and barbeques while they attempt to spell out a future of rationing and want for all the rest of us. Flown there on
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self Assembly of 3D Nano Structures
12-08-2010
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arclein
Self-assembly of planar molecules on a surface can result in the formation of a wide variety of close-packed or porous structures. Two-dimensional porous arrays provide host sites for trapping guest species of suitable size. Here we show that a non
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News Link • Economy - International
Rare Earth Recovery Enthusiasm
12-08-2010
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arclein
he technique revolves around recovering dysprosium and neodymium from liquids via a fused-salt electrolysis method. The company will conduct field tests of the technology in Kazakhstan with help from Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation.
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News Link • Economy - International
Urbanization in China and India
12-08-2010
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arclein
Indian cities will create 70 percent of new jobs, and these will prove a powerful magnet. MGI projects that the urban population of India will increase from 340 million in 2008 to 590 million by 2030.
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
12-08-2010
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poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com
The Global Banking Cartel has now been so blatantly exposed, you cannot possibly get away with pretending that we live in a nation of law based on the Constitution. The jig is up.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Karl Denninger: You're Paying Your Mortgage..... Why?
12-08-2010
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Market-ticker.org
This lawsuit out of Texas alleging that Bank of America not only tried to collect on a Paid In Full mortgage but refused to listen to the fact that it had been paid in full and in fact threatened that the owners were "going to lose their home.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Why Julian Assange is Toast
12-08-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Civil Rights attorney Ron Kuby discusses with Judge Napolitano the arrest of Julian Assange, and the terrible future that is in store for Assange.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
12 Simple Things To Prepare For The Coming Financial Apocalypse
12-08-2010
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LewRockwell.com
#6 Find A Reliable Source Of Water: Water is going to become a very, very valuable resource in the years to come. It will be absolutely key for you and your family to have a dependable source of clean drinking water.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Reagan and Bush: Who Benefitted From the Death of John Lennon?
12-08-2010
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YouTube.com
The anti-war message of John Lennon would have been a serious thorn in the side of the incoming Reagan/Bush administration, so they silenced him. The CIA could then send death squads to Central America to kill nuns with impunity...
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News Link • Conspiracies
30 Years Ago Today: Did The CIA Assassinate John Lennon?
12-08-2010
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dailymail.co.uk/news/
In a new book, author Phil Strongman claims that Chapman was a stooge. Lennon’s real assassin was the CIA " at the behest of Right-wing fanatics in the American political establishment.
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News Link • Government
Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
12-08-2010
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Kevin Poulsen via WIRED.com
Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: "Bernanke Has Been Wrong Every Time He's Opened His Mouth"
12-07-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
"Mr. Bernanke has been wrong every time he's opened his mouth," he said. "I'm terrified everytime he speaks."
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News Link • Just For Fun!
What You Need to Know When Buying a Web-Connected TV
12-08-2010
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James Lee via WIRED.com
With seriously large amounts of content online from YouTube to Hulu to Vimeo, there’s never been a better time to get a TV that can access online content. But there are pitfalls:
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