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Date Sent: 2009-06-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 11, 2009 PM edition |
US Household Worth Fell $1.3 Trillion in First Quarter -- WHO Declares Swine Flu Level 6 Pandemic
World Bank sees steeper global economy contraction -- CIA chief says
bin Laden in Pakistan -- New element added to periodic table -- Pearce Anti-Immigrant Amendment Attacks You! - by Brock Lorber -- Homeowner Equity Falls to All-Time Low of 41.4 Percent -- Mohawks on the march -- Fed: Household Net Worth Off $14 Trillion from the Peak in 2007 -- Dave Lindorff: The Wheels are Coming Off the Recovery Program --
The A.M.A.’s lame statement about the Obama healthcare plan- by Chuck
Adkins -- RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Activity May Hit 1.8 Million by
Mid-Year -- Retail Sales in May: Off 10.8% from May 2008 -- Unemployment Claims: Record 6.8 Million Continued Claims -- Congressmen Bail Out Their Own Investments (Surprise!) -- Guard loses his life in Holocaust Museum shooting -- BofA documents, e-mails show pressure to buy Merrill Lynch -- Senate to vote on FDA power to regulate tobacco -- 4 Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo to Bermuda
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News Link • Economy - International
World Bank sees steeper global economy contraction
06-11-2009
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Reuters
The global economy will contract in 2009 by more than initially
thought, given rising unemployment and underutilization of capacity,
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.
Speaking before a weekend meeting in Italy of finance ministers from
the Group of Eight major industrial nations, Zoellick said indications
were that the world economy would shrink by close to 3 percent, worse
than the previous estimate of 1.75 percent.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New element added to periodic table: Element 112
06-11-2009
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Reuters
A team in Germany first produced 112
in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120-meter-long particle
accelerator to hit a lead target.
"The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen,
making it the heaviest element in the periodic table," the scientists
at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said in a statement
late on Wednesday.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hormone experts worried about plastics, chemicals
06-11-2009
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AP
Hormone experts said they are becoming worried by a
chemical [found in plastics] called bisphenol A, which some politicians say they want taken
out of products and which consumers are increasingly shunning.
They
said they have gathered a growing body evidence to show the compound,
also known as BPA, might damage human health. The Endocrine Society
issued a scientific statement on Wednesday calling for better studies
into its effects.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Denninger: Smuggling Or Counterfeit-Printing?
06-11-2009
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/
Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland. They include 249 US Federal Reserve bonds worth US$ 500 million each...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Why Advanced Lead Acid Batteries?
06-11-2009
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arclein
I have consistently argued that budget conscious consumers would prefer cheap lead-acid batteries to smaller, lighter and more expensive lithium-ion batteries, particularly for HEV applications. The timing of the new EU regulations has put automakers in a position where they can’t afford to wait for “the battery of tomorrow.” Instead they have to go to work immediately and meet the CO2 emission standards with batteries they can buy today from established manufacturers. Under those circumstances, I’m convinced that advanced lead-acid batteries will dominate the HEV markets until a clearly superior battery technology is developed.
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News Link • Government
BofA documents, e-mails show pressure to buy Merrill Lynch
06-11-2009
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McClatchy News
Internal Bank of America
documents and e-mails among federal banking regulators show that
federal officials leaned on the bank to seal the acquisition of Merrill Lynch in December or else face a management upheaval if the company wanted government assistance.
The internal documents, subpoenaed this week by
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News Link • Drug War
Senate to vote on FDA power to regulate tobacco
06-11-2009
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AP
A tobacco control bill set to win Senate approval would give the
federal government broad new powers to monitor and change a toxic
substance that contributes to some 400,000 deaths every year.
The legislation, heading for a vote Thursday, would for the first
time give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to regulate
the sale, manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products.
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News Link • Torture
Palau agrees to accept Uighur detainees from Guantanamo
06-11-2009
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McClatchy News
To the relief of the Obama administration, the South Pacific island
nation of Palau agreed Wednesday to take the 17 Muslim Uighurs from
China who're still being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the
first major release of detainees since President Barack Obama announced
his plan to close the prison by January.
The State
Department expressed gratitude for the offer, but it said the details
haven't been settled. Spokesman Ian Kelly also
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News Link • Torture
China objects to Palau resettling Guantanamo men
06-11-2009
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AP
Palau President Johnson Toribiong
denied his government's move was influenced by any massive aid package
from Washington, saying that the Uighurs have become "international
vagabonds" who deserve a fresh start. China said it opposes any country
taking them. It's the first time since 2006
that the U.S. has successfully resettled any of Guantanamo's Uighurs.
The U.S. government had determined
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