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Date Sent: 2009-06-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 1, 2009 PM edition |
GM files bankruptcy--Suspect jailed in abortion doctor's murder--Pass. plane crashes into Atlantic
Citigroup exit from Dow cements bank's downfall -- 9/11 Security Courtesy of Marvin Bush -- Disgraced former judge Rep. Hastings proposes de facto US prison camps -- Black Swan Fund Makes a Big Bet on Inflation
-- Las Vegas: Commercial Real Estate follows Residential Down the Drain
-- More Info on the 16-year-old Patriot Act Victim -- Cybersecurity:
Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives -- Think You Are a US Citizen? Prove It! -- Virgin Galactic Completes First-Phase Rocket Tests -- Another Ranking Member of Congress states: "Banks Run The Place" -- Kevin Trudeau, the 'Infomercial King' talks about attending the Bilderberg Group -- 46% of Georgia Senate in favor of Secession
AZ: Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan in Phoenix this Thursday, Friday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM Files for Bankruptcy
06-01-2009
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arclein
GM has bowed to the inevitable and is passing through bankruptcy. I want you to think about that. Six months ago, a portfolio top heavy with financial service companies and GM was about as conservative as you could make an investment portfolio. And the supply was large enough to satisfy all comers. Most of this stock was all lodged in managed pension plans and the like because the managers did not dare show that they were accepting excessive risk. If I had held their positions, I would have been very satisfied following suite. I would have slept well at night and perhaps fretted about that small cap flyer in the discretionary part of the portfolio.
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News Link • Free Speech
CNN's Chetry Lets Abortionist Smear Pro-Life Demonstrators
6/01/09
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News Busters
CNN anchor Kiran Chetry let an “abortion provider” from Alabama, whose center was bombed by captured fugitive Eric Rudolph, denigrate all pro-life activists who have ever protested in front of such centers as potential murderers w/video..
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 Security Courtesy of Marvin Bush
06-01-2009
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http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911secur
Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company, Burns noted, was backed by KuwAm, a Kuwaiti-American investment firm on whose board Marvin Burns also served. [Utne]
According to its present CEO, Barry McDaniel, the company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center "up to the day the buildings fell down."
The company lists as government clients "the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S Air force, and the Department of Justice," in projects that "often require state-of-the-art security solutions for classified or high-risk government sites."
Stratesec (Securacom) differs from other security companies which separate the function of consultant from that of service provider. The company defines itself as a "single-source" provider of "end-to-end" security se
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Science
New Solar Cycle Prediction
06-01-2009
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arclein
"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
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News Link • Agriculture
Cellulose and Cattails with Peggy Korth
06-01-2009
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arclein
With enough acid, you can turn most any biomass into glucose. Depending on the lignin content, you will have varying degrees of success. At this time, cellulosic processing is not a part of our cattail conversion interests. Having lost a small fortune backing cellulosic processing technology and understanding the next generation of GMO’s confirms skepticism.
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Sotto Voce Sotomayor
06-01-2009
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Paul Jacobs
Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor is precisely the kind of jurist to divide us. She’s said things that seem racist and sexist and absurd. But, then, if I criticize her for those things, her supporters will call what I say racist or sexist or absurd.
And none of us want racism, or sexism, much less absurdity.
Let’s try sympathy, instead. It’s not easy to promote a constitutional philosophy consistent and widely acceptable at a time when much of what the federal government does belies " abridges " repudiates! " the Constitution itself.
Take the First Amendment. It begins, “Congress shall make no law . . .” No ambiguity. And yet Congress makes all sorts of law regarding speech, including regulating speech about politics, negating the whole point of the First Amendment.
What part of “no law” don’t today’s jurists understand? In many cases it’s the part where the states have power to fashion their own solutions to problems. It’s called the Tenth Amendment. And it’s usually ignored
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Cybersecurity: Total Government Regulation & Control Of Our Lives
06-01-2009
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InfoWars.com
The legislation would allow the government to tap into any digital aspect of every citizen’s information without a warrant. Banking, business and medical records would be wide open to inspection, as well as personal instant message and e mail communications.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
More Info on the 16-year-old Patriot Act Victim
06-01-2009
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News & Observer
The case of 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby, taken from his Oxford house by federal agents in March and accused of making a bomb threat, became an Internet sensation this month. For better and for worse.
Coverage of the case began April 29 when WRAL aired a story built around comments from his mother, Annette. She said her son had been taken from her house under the Patriot Act, enacted in 2001 to fight terrorism.
He was accused of phoning a threat that led to the clearing of a building at Purdue University. He is being held in Indiana.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM Bankruptcy: An American Revolution
06-01-2009
This is it. After months of speculation, General Motors will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy early this morning. The iconic automaker, which was once seen as synonymous with American capitalism and only 10 years ago was the world's largest company, will be nationalized. The United States will invest $30.1 billion in the company, on top of the $20 billion it has already spent on propping up the automaker. The Los Angeles Times points out that GM will now be "the second-largest recipient of bailout money, behind insurance giant American International Group." USA Today notes that GM, unlike Chrysler, will not announce a companywide plant shutdown. Under the current restructuring plan, the U.S. government would get about 60 percent of the new GM, the governments of Canada and Ontario would get 12 percent, 17.5 percent would go to a union retiree-health trust, and bondholders would get 10 percent. The Washington Post devotes much of its piece to looking, once again, at how the
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic Completes First-Phase Rocket Tests
05-31-2009
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Space
The space tourism firm Virgin Galactic has successfully test-fired the rocket motor designed to boost a passenger spaceliner on suborbital joy rides into space. The hybrid rocket motor would launch Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft into suborbital space at speeds of over 2,500 mph (4,000 kph) to send ticket-carrying passengers soaring to heights of 65 miles (110 km) above the Earth.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Detroit Mayor Throws First Brick In Glass-Breaking Ceremony For New Slum
06-01-2009
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The Onion
DETROIT"As community leaders and members of the press looked on, Detroit mayor David Bing proudly hurled the first brick this week in a window-shattering ceremony for the city's newest dilapidated slum.
The result of three years of construction work and more than $24,000 in public funds, the rat-infested and crime-ridden development was unveiled to the public on Tuesday.
"It is my great honor to introduce to you the brand new Baneberry Heights," announced Bing, gesturing to the ramshackle subdivision behind him. "Filthy, dangerous, filled with violence and blight: It's all here, and it's all completely falling apart."
Enlarge Image Slum
"This is what the people of Detroit have been waiting for," Bing continued before walking to a nearby trash can, setting its contents on fire, and heaving the flaming receptacle through a corner storefront. "Baneberry Heights is a nightmare come true."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner Goes To China: Will He Soothe Or Spark?
06-01-2009
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NPR
Timothy Geithner's first trip to China as treasury secretary comes at a vulnerable time for the Obama administration.
Mired in a brutal recession, the United States needs Beijing to buy more American goods, allow its currency rise and make other moves to narrow an enormous trade gap. The U.S. also needs China's help to confront any military threat from North Korea.
Yet Washington's leverage has waned just as China's power over the U.S. has grown.
China is now America's biggest creditor. As of March, it held $768 billion of Treasury securities " about 10 percent of publicly traded debt.
The U.S. needs China's money to finance U.S. budget deficits, which are soaring as Washington tries to end the recession and bolster the banking system. The administration estimates the budget deficit will hit $1.84 trillion this year. That's four times last year's deficit.
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News Link • Humor
What in Thunder? Dr. Paul appears in the new Bruno Movie Trailer
06-01-2009
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MovieWeb.com
Of the scene, Dr Paul said, "I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. So, that didn't turn out that way. But, by the time he started pulling his pants down, I said, What in Thunder is going on here? I ran out of the room. This interview has ended."
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News Link • Humor
Bruno (Sasha Baron Cohen) Tea-bags Eminem on Live Television
06-01-2009
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Hollywood.com
"Flying in" over the crowd, Cohen's outrageous alter-ego 'suffered' an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction, landing upside down on Eminem's lap. Eminem screamed, "Are you serious? Are you f**kin' serious?" as his entourage rushed to free the tea-bagged rapper.
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News Link • States' Rights
46% of Georgia Senate in favor of Secession, Will Ga really say goodbye to Feds?
05-19-09
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www.LCLReport.com
A new survey showed 46% of the Republican house are in favor of discussing Secession. We examine senate resolution 632 aka the Ga sovereignty or secession bill. We go to the Ga Republican convention and get the real details about it from candidate for Governor Ray McBerry.
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