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Date Sent: 2011-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, August 18, 2011 PM edition |
Wall Street tumbles on economy, bank worries -- Gold strikes record
Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut down -- Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home -- 6 Israeli Dead in Triple
Terror Attack -- IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain -- 64
Percent of Americans Don't Have $1,000 Saved for an Emergency -- The Depression And Choice Corner Is Now (Philly Fed) -- PHILLY FED CATASTROPHE: -30.7 On Expectations of +2.0 -- Peru suspends US-funded coca eradication program -- Feds to Investigate S&P --
Murdering Police officer Shawn Wilson Back on the Job! -- Rick Perry:
Extremist White America's Evangelical Hope -- Theoretical Breakthrough
in Super Conductance
AZ: Jordan Page to perform in
Quartzsite August 27th (donate) Oath Keepers To Muster in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27th,
bring your cameras.
Nationwide civil
disobedience: Support your local lemonade stand, Aug. 20
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wall Street tumbles on economy, bank worries
08-18-2011
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Reuters
Stocks tumbled more than 4 percent on Thursday after data pointed to a stalled economy and as bank shares sank on a report regulators were scrutinizing the U.S. units of big European lenders.
The decline was broad as well as steep, with just a sma
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News Link • Economy - International
Gold strikes record as macro unease jolts markets
08-18-2011
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Reuters
Gold rallied to its second record high in a week on Thursday, driven by growing investor unease over the outlook for the U.S. economy after data showed an unwelcome pickup in inflation, and over the lack of resolution to the European debt crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Woman’s yard sale to pay medical bills gets shut down
08-18-2011
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salem.katu.com
A woman fighting a terminal form of bone cancer is trying to raise money to help pay bills with a few weekend garage sales, but the city of Salem says she’s breaking the law and is shutting her down.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday August 18th, 2011
08-18-2011
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lewrockwell.com
But America IS a Police State - Steve Greenhut on our overlords. / Libertarian Vampires - Anthony Gregory on the importance of freedom sci-fi. / The Media Are Paid To Lie for the State - As the case of Ron Paul proves, says Scott Lazarowitz.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home
08-18-2011
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bloomberg.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as prices for the metal rise to a record.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
6 Israeli Dead in Triple Terror Attack
08-18-2011
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www.israelnationalnews.com
Six dead following a triple terrorist attack in Israel's southern region. IDF soldiers killed several terrorists and search for others.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain
08-18-2011
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www.computing.co.uk
IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Peyton Manning is highest paid player in NFL
08-18-2011
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www.reuters.com
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning will end this year as the National Football League's (NFL) highest-paid player, according to a Forbes report released Wednesday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
AOL Gets Last, Best Hope in Private Equity
08-18-2011
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bloomberg.com
For a private equity firm that’s looking for the cheapest way to get online, AOL Inc. (AOL) is trading for 57 cents on the dollar.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Israel
'Mossad plotted to harm Egyptian fertility'
08-18-2011
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www.ynetnews.com
Egypt's Al-Ahram daily claims Israeli Ofir Harrari accused of spying for Israel, devised to sell Egypt hair products endangering reproductive abilities
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Ridley Scott Ready To Direct New Version Of Seminal Sci-Fi Film 'Blade Runner'
08-18-2011
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www.deadline.com
After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks Trim Losses, Dow Down 350; HP Jumps
08-18-2011
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www.cnbc.com
Stocks were off their session lows after European markets closed, but the major averages were still sharply lower across the board following a handful of disappointing economic news and over continuing worries over the stability of euro zone banks.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
Christine O'Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan Interview
08-18-2011
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www.deadline.com
The tipping point was Morgan's question about her stance on gay marriage.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rick Perry: The Caesar of Paint Creek, Texas
08-18-2011
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CounterPunch.org
Could military veterans decide the Republican presidential contest? They largely tilted the GOP race to war hero John McCain in 2008, by delivering the critical swing votes in South Carolina and Florida, and by offsetting the enormous...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
64 Percent of Americans Don't Have $1,000 Saved for an Emergency
08-18-2011
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MyBudget360.com
A recent poll found that 64 percent of Americans would not be able to shoulder even an unexpected expense of $1,000. If a transmission on a car goes down or additional medical expenses hit, it will cost well over $1,000.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Depression And Choice Corner Is Now (Philly Fed)
08-18-2011
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Market-ticker.org
The fraud and phony games are over.
The "Tea Party" claims to have taken the high ground. They're lying.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sentiment Leads Consumption; Sentiment Four Ways: Chris Puplava, Calculated Risk...
08-18-2011
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
The string of overshoots in estimates from the ISM Manufacturing Index to GDP to consumer sentiment indicates we are yet at another economic inflection point in which the economy is rolling over.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
PHILLY FED CATASTROPHE: -30.7 On Expectations of +2.0
08-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com & BusinesInsider.com
QE3 is being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the arena. As for the Philly Fed number below, there is no comment necessary.The 10 Year just took out 2.00% and is at 1.99%.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Peru suspends US-funded coca eradication programme
08-18-2011
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Associated Press
Peru's new centre-left government is temporarily suspending its modest US-funded coca eradication programme to re-evaluate its strategy. The prime minister, Salomón Lerner, said the government was committed to reducing the illegal crop and would conv
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Anthropology
Descended From Apes, Acting As Slime Molds: Nathan Myhrvold
08-17-2011
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Bloomberg
Society as a whole isn’t rational. In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world,
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Feds to Investigate S&P
08-18-2011
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AP via Yahoo
Hmmm, S&P downgrades US debt and the Justice (sic) Department launches a probe into its role in the housing meltdown. Surely a coincidence.
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Radioactive Rain In Toronto Canada As Large Scale Government Cover Up Of Radiation Dangers Exposed
8/18/2011
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The Intel Hub
An independent radiation test in Toronto Canada has revealed startling levels of radiation just days after famed nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen claimed that radioactive rain would continue to hit the west coast for upwards of a year.
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Alex Thomas
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Murdering Police officer Shawn Wilson Back on the Job!
08-18-2011
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Thomas Costanzo
PAGE â€" Murdering Page Police Officer Shawn Wilson is now back on the job, brutalizing the residents of the town of Page, Arizona. Officer Wilson got off scot free for the MURDER of bonded sovereign, William Dale Foust. Foust was a business owner an
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News Link • Science
Theoretical Breakthrough in Super Conductance
08-18-2011
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arclein
He obtained data from lots of experimental groups, including his own, and we found a remarkably successful agreement between theory and experiment at a level that has never been achieved before in this field."
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
CO2 Warmth Link Reversed and Immediate
08-18-2011
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arclein
Salby’s argument is that the usual evidence given for the rise in CO2 being man-made is mistaken. It’s usually taken to be the fact that as carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increase, the 1 per cent of CO2 that’s the heavier carbon isot
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Fresh Look at Weather
08-18-2011
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arclein
The model, used since the 1920s and devised by Norwegian meteorologists, is that when a storm occludes (evolves), it will automatically begin to weaken and pose little danger of severe weather. Instead, some of the biggest storms in the UK's histor
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Disappearing Bumblebee
08-18-2011
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arclein
Bumble bees, like honey bees, are important pollinators of native plants and are used to pollinate greenhouse crops like peppers and tomatoes. But colonies of Bombus occidentalis used for greenhouse pollination began to suffer from disease problems i
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robert klein
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News Link • Transportation
It’s Official: Plug-In Cadillac Is Coming
08-17-2011
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Chuck Squatriglia via WIRED.com
General Motors has confirmed what we already told you: It will build a Cadillac plug-in hybrid using the Chevrolet Volt’s drivetrain, a move that further underscores its commitment to cars with cords.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 McDonald’s Purchase
08-17-2011
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia.
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