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Date Sent: 2010-08-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 27, 2010 PM edition |
Internet Kill Switch: Senate Wants To Sneak Bill Through in September
The Case for Ben Bernanke as Mad Scientist -- Author takes on China's premier, aware that free speech has a cost -- CSU must reveal Sarah Palin speech contract, judge rules -- Incoming students may get genetic tests --
ex-FEMA director celebrates anniversary of (his) Katrina failure --
Economist Robert Shiller: Double-dip recession "may be imminent." --
National ID? No. It’s Worse. -- The Pocket Subversion Edition: Spooner’s The Constitution of No Authority
-- Canada Thwarts Bombing Attempt -- The Iraqi oil conundrum -- As fees
for credit & debit cards rise, businesses are offering discounts
for payment by cash -- Lenders "Procrastinating" on Foreclosures to Hide Their Losses -- Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like -- Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Case for Ben Bernanke as Mad Scientist
08-27-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Doesn't Bernanke get that people throughout the land are scared out of their financial minds? That the demand for cash is soaring because people have no clue as to what is going to happen next in the economy?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
Author takes on China's premier, aware that free speech has a cost
08-27-2010
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McClatchy News
Yu Jie picked a fight with the Communist Party of China, and if state security forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will be no one to stop them. It's a risk Yu took when he slammed the country's prime minister as shilling for authoritaria
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Israel
Facing arrest, catcalls, Israeli women pray at Western Wall
08-27-2010
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McClatchy News
The women come from all over Israel to pray at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites. As their voices rise and fall in prayer police have arrested them on charges of disturbing the peace; others have spit at, cursed and attacked them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Waste
CSU must reveal Sarah Palin speech contract, judge rules
08-27-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
School administrators denied having correspondence about it, and students found shredded documents about the visit in the administration’s dumpster. Palin gave the speech June 25, and was paid $75,000.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Incoming students may get genetic tests
08-27-2010
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Scripps Howard News Service
One of the tricky things about using genetic tests in medicine is whether knowledge of a particular gene variation is sufficient to offer specific medical advice. 2 different screening programs affecting college students this fall underscore some of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Internet Kill Switch: Senate Wants To Sneak Bill Through In September
08-27-2010
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InfoWars.com/
The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass " the defense authorization bill " in an underhanded ploy to avoid...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday August 27th 2010
08-27-2010
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LewRockwell.com
10 Practical Steps You Can Take Now - US Bond Bubble Bursting? - What Would Jim Rogers Do? - US Exports Terrorism - Forced Mass Schooling of the Young - The True National Debt
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ECRI At -9.9% - Weeks at Recent Lows Confirming Double-Dip Recession
08-27-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
James Altucher is a well known "PermaBull", but his index is signaling the start of a double-dip recession.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bush Administration
FEMA director splains Katrina failure
08-27-2010
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MSNBC
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the federal official then in charge, FEMA director Mike Brown said there was a "disconnect" between what we were saying, and how bad things actually were.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economist Robert Shiller: Double-dip recession "may be imminent."
08-27-2010
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online.WSJ.com
The co-creator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index said he is worried that housing prices could decline for another five years. He noted that Japan saw land prices decline for 15 consecutive years up to 2006.
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Surveillance
AxXiom for Liberty
National ID? No. It’s Worse.
08-27-2010
Kaye Beach
I have spent the last few years learning everything I possibly can about biometrics, RFID and the systems and policies our government is using to stealthily lock us into a national ID. Actually, it’s worse than a national ID, it’s international.
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News Link • Counter-Economics
Making Hay While the Sun Shines
08-27-2010
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C4SS / Thomas L. Knapp
The purpose of political government is to suck the blood out of the productive class and pump it into the waiting veins of the political class. The dilemma of the political class is figuring out how much blood it can take without killing the donor.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • TERRORISM
Canada Thwarts Bombing Attempt
08-27-2010
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The Wall Street Journal
Canadian authorities said they found and foiled a terrorist bomb-making plot by three men here"one allegedly with links to the conflict in Afghanistan and another, a pathologist who auditioned for the TV show "Canadian Idol.''
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Iraq
The Iraqi oil conundrum
2-04-2010
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Michael Schwartz
7 years later, it will come as little surprise that things turned out to cost a bit more than expected in Iraq and didn't work out exactly as imagined. Though the March 2003 invasion quickly ousted Saddam, the rest of the Bush administration's ambiti
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Currencies
As fees for credit & debit cards rise, businesses are offering discounts for payment by cash
08-27-2010
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floridatoday.com
"It was 80 percent credit cards before we started, but it's now about 50/50," said Kent Black. "Non-locals still tend to pay with credit cards, but we've seen a marked increase in cash payments from the local customers."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Housing
In America, Housing Is The Economy
08-27-2010
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TheAutomaticEarth.blogspot.com
Imagine what another 20%, 30% or 50% drop in home prices would do. To you yourself, to your neighbors, to your community, your town. And, in the end, the nation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Lenders "Procrastinating" on Foreclosures to Hide Their Losses
08-27-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Now industry executives are questioning whether delaying foreclosures " a strategy contrary to the industry adage that "the first loss is the best loss" " is about to backfire. With home prices expected to fall...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
14.42% of Mortgage Loans Delinquent or in Foreclosure
08-27-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Clearly Florida and Nevada have a large percentage of loans delinquent or in foreclosure. But the delinquency problem is widespread with 36 states and D.C. all having total delinquency rates above 10%.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like
08-27-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
A whole boatload of fools in Washington, on seeing this terrible commodity-driven crisis unfold, with consumer prices shooting the moon, will scream for dollars to be printed"and their rationale will be perfectly reasonable, I can practically hear it
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Archaeology
Mother of all Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago
08-27-2010
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arclein
We wanted to see how sensitive the estimates were to the assumptions of the models," Kimmel said. "We found that all of the models that accounted for random population size - such as different branching processes - gave similar estimates. This is r
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Potential HIV Drug Keeps Virus out of Cells
08-27-2010
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arclein
Due to the high conservation of the pocket region across strains, PIE12-trimer worked against all major HIV strains worldwide, from Southeast Asia and South America to the United States and Africa.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Fuel Treatment Proves Out
08-27-2010
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arclein
“This study provides the most definitive evidence yet of the effectiveness of fuel treatments in dry forests of the Pacific Northwest,” said Susan Prichard, a UW research scientist and senior author of the study. “If dense forests are thinned and the
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robert klein
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
FREE MARKET SOLUTION TO SPORTS AGENT ISSUE
082810
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www.varight.com
The sports agent and the student athlete: Another area where more of a free market solution is needed.
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
X-37B Space Plane Aloft
08-27-2010
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arclein
Only a very select few in the US military know what it's for, but observers on Earth believe they're putting together the puzzle piece by piece.
Several sources claim quote arms control advocates who say it's clearly the beginning of the "weapon
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robert klein
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Shadow Elite: Selling Out Uncle Sam - The Collision of State & Private Power
08-26-2010
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Janine R. Wedel and Linda Keenan
Contractor officials and employees are involved in all aspects of governing and negotiating "over policy making, implementation, and enforcement," as one legal scholar has noted. Yet Contractor companies are responsible for making a profit for their
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Leon Felkins
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