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Date Sent: 2009-08-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 21, 2009 AM edition |
Zimbabwe Considering Gold-Backed Currency -- Zogby: Obama Hits Record Low in Poll
The Real Viper Conspiracy; Don't believe the hype -- Learn to Love the Depression - by Bill Bonner -- MORE Banking Fraud (Foreclosure Stats) -- What was the success of the armed dozen (and the brazen Chris)? --
Lockerbie bomber returned to Libya to die---but you should know the
rest of the story -- Air America nails Obama as a liar on drug company dealings --The long, sordid tale of anti-black brutality by the American left -- Mexican drug cartels now recruiting hit men from U.S. military -- "The Freedom Index" -- 2010 Great Depression Preview -- Will a drug stop us from aging? -- AR-15 Chris B. on the Alex Jones show
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Real Viper Conspiracy; Don't believe the hype
08-21-2009
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by Vin Suprynowicz
On July 1, a dozen citizens of Phoenix were arrested and charged with being members of
the "Viper Militia." The next day, President Clinton stood on the White House lawn.
saying. "I'd like to begin today by saluting the enforcement officers who made arrests in
Arizona yesterday to avert a terrible terrorist attack." But as the indictments are made
available to the public and more evidence about the Vipers' activities emerges, it is
becoming increasingly clear that the Viper case is merely the government's latest assault
on citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Zogby: Obama Hits Record Low in Poll
08-20-2009
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Newsmax
President Barack Obama's popularity has plummeted to a record low, with just 45 percent of voters now approving of his performance, according to the latest Zogby International poll.
Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president's job performance, just 45.3 percent of likely voters say they approve. That compares with 50.5 percent who disapprove of the job Obama is doing.
The results are a strong indication that contentious national debate over healthcare reform has taken a major toll on the president's popularity.
Those numbers also indicate that Obama clearly is in serious political trouble, Fox News analyst and best-selling author Dick Morris tells Newsmax.
"As soon as Obama dropped below 52 percent . . . he was leaking real voters who had backed him in November," Morris tells Newsmax. "Now that he is down to 45 percent among likely voters . . . he is in deep political trouble."
Of greatest concern to Obama may well be his de
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News Link • Obama Administration
MORE Banking Fraud (Foreclosure Stats)
08-20-2009
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The Market Ticker
When does the willful blindness in terms of bank fraud taking place daily in the so-called "marks" on housing-related loans stop?
The Mortgage Bankers Association released its latest update:
The non-seasonally adjusted delinquency rate increased 64 basis points from 8.22 percent in the first quarter of 2009 to 8.86 percent this quarter.
and
The delinquency rate includes loans that are at least one payment past due but does not include loans somewhere in the process of foreclosure. The percentage of loans in the foreclosure process at the end of the second quarter was 4.30 percent, an increase of 45 basis points from the first quarter of 2009 and 155 basis points from one year ago. The combined percentage of loans in foreclosure and at least one payment past due was 13.16 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the highest ever recorded in the MBA delinquency survey.
That's right folks. That means that of all mortgage loans 13.16% are not in "accr
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
SUPER URGENT-PLEASE DROP EVERYTHING
8/20/09
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APFN Messageboard
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Daily Gut: Does MSNBC Want a Race War?
8/20/09
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Big Hollywood
So on Tuesday, we did a segment on this black dude who showed up in Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking " with an assault weapon and a pistol strapped to his shoulder. We all pretty much agreed, that despite his actions being legal, it was still idiotic. There are many things in life that are legal, but totally nuts if done at the wrong time. For example, when I shower I’m completely naked " no law against that. However, try showing up nude at a Jonas Brothers lunch box signing " that’s another story (I blame it on the Ambien).videos
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Chile finds H1N1 swine flu in turkeys
08-20-2009
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Reuters
Chile detected the H1N1 swine flu virus in turkeys, authorities said on Thursday, the first time the virus has been found outside humans or pigs.
Chile's farming and livestock agency SAG said the flu outbreak had been controlled at the two farms 75 miles west of the capital Santiago.
"We call on the public to consume turkey products with confidence," a SAG statement said. It added that laboratory results ruled out the presence of H5N1 or bird flu virus.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization declared H1N1 a full pandemic in June and the virus has now spread to some 180 countries, causing at least 1,462 laboratory-confirmed deaths. The WHO says the pandemic is unstoppable.
The H1N1 swine flu virus was first seen in March in Mexico and California. Experts say at least 1 million people have been infected in the United States alone.
Genetic tests show the virus appears to have originated in pigs but it is now spreading from human to human.
The head of th
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News Link • Healthcare
Health 'Co-ops' Are Government Care
8/20/09
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Wallstreet Journal
Responding to a building wave of opposition to the "public option," the Obama administration is now signaling that it may dress up government health care in yet another set of clothes. This time, it will be called a health insurance "co-op." Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) is floating the idea, Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) has offered his initial support, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has listed three conditions it needs to meet.
Mr. Schumer's conditions are a national structure, federal financing, and a ban on federal appointees who have ties to the insurance industry. This "co-op" would be federally controlled, federally funded, and federally staffed. Expressing his opposition to smaller organizations and his demand for a national "co-op," Mr. Schumer says, "It has to have clout; it has to be large." He adds, "There would at least be one national model that could go all over the country," which would require "a la
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News Link • Federal Reserve
“The Real War Is Not Between the Left and the Right. It Is Between the Average American and the Ruli
08-20-2009
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Washington;s Blog
Sometimes the message is great, no matter what you think of the messenger.
Larry Flynt - yes, that Larry Flynt - wrote today on Huffington Post:
The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich ... Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.
This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment's hesitation, they took our money -- yours and mine -- to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don't care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as "useless eaters"...
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Congress Vows Forceful Takeover of American People Imminent
8/20/09
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Repubx
Since the 2006 Congressional elections"when leftist Democrats took over the majority of both the US House of Representatives and Senate"the dye was cast for the takeover of the lives of the American people. Then, the Dictator-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama was placed into the office of the presidency. At that point, the Democrats had two of the three branches of government in their greased pockets. Obama vowed to push all of his Socio-fascist programs through, despite any and all opposition. And he and his minions are now pushing as hard and as fast as they can. The current forceful pushes are firmly against the American people.
Beginnings of Takeover"Part 1 More....
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News Link • Healthcare
Air America nails Obama as a liar on drug company dealings (w/video)
8/20/09
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Patriot Room
Here's the h/t link - and well-deserved. Several minutes long, and it only gets better and better and better. Remember getting to drink the chocolate milk at the bottom of the Cocoa Puffs bowl? Better. Trust me.
Obama is a "charming liar" - and that's the good part! This audio is priceless. "It makes me puke that we've just been 'Cheneyed' by a guy named Barack Obama." "What if the people out there screaming and breaking up the discussions at the town hall meetings are correct?".Watch video:
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
The Free Market and its Enemies
Thomas Costanzo
“If we cannot
return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality
over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is even lower
incomes and standards of living for all.”
Hans F. Sennholz
“The
prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible through increased capital
investment, increased capital accumulation.”
Ludwig Von Mises
“The
Resources that government extracts from the private sector to pay for itself are
resources that are not available for the private sector to use in producing
more goods and services. When the
federal government takes money out of our pockets, we have less money to spend
or save. When the federal government
takes money from business, it has less money to use for investment, research,
o
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSNBC Sees Gun, Shoots Self
8/20/09
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Riehl World View
I imagine many of you have seen this by now.
Several conservative bloggers, including Hot Air, RedState, and NewsBusters, have taken MSNBC to task for not identifying a man with a gun at an Obama event as an African-American in a segment that discussed the "racial overtones" of those packing heat at presidential town halls.
A combination of fancy editing and fast talking, both done stupidly because it's MSNBC (If a moron can make it in this business, hey, why not you?).
As expected, MSNBC just sloughs it off:
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News Link • Racism
A History of Violence
The long, sordid tale of anti-black brutality on the American left
08-20-2009
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Reason
Do the noisy protests directed at President Barack Obama's health care plan reveal something uniquely sinister about the American right? A surprising number of liberal pundits seem to think so. "Let's be honest with ourselves," progressive blogger Josh Marshall declared, "the American right has a deep-seated problem with political violence....The ideological pattern is clear going back at least thirty years and arguably far longer."
Chip Berlet, a senior researcher at the liberal think tank Political Research Associates, went even further than that, telling New America Media: "For over 100 years"more like 150, you've had these movements, and they came out of the Civil War. It is a backlash against social liberalism and it's rooted in libertarian support for unregulated capitalism and white people holding onto power, and, if they see themselves losing it, trying to get it back."
Now, it's certainly true that the United States has
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News Link • Media: Television
Obamabots in the media line up to demonize 2nd Amd. activists
08-20-2009
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infowars.com
When Ernest Hancock stunned CNN's Rick Sanchez by mentioning Janet Napolitano's pro... er, PERsecution of the Viper Militia, that gave the Obamabots the opening they'd been looking for to demonize "right-wing" opposition to Obama's policies.
Just as Sanchez was totally unprepared for the interview he had with Hancock, this crowd is totally unprepared for a thorough review of the Viper Militia case and related government abuses.
It's Rolaids time.
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News Link • Corruption
DemocRATS and Goldman Sachs
08-20-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
Today Government Sachs announced it is a Financial Holding Company so in following the Bribes err I mean campaign contributions from Open Secrets...
4 Goldman Sachs $31,183,662 64% 35%
You will note 64% of the Bribes went to DemocRATS! According to their own research they seem to apportion some of the cause of the meltdown to bank holding companies and the way they can shift losses around taking by advantage of differing sets of rules and regulatory oversight:
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rise
08-20-2009
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Yahoo
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, a government report showed on Thursday, fanning worries of an anemic recovery from the worst recession in 70 years.
Reuters - Attendees at a job fair line up to gather information about a prospective employer in a Washington hotel, ...
Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits rose 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 576,000 in the week ended August 15 from 561,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast new claims slipping to 550,000 last week from a previously reported 558,000.
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News Link • Energy
ND burns off natural gas due to lack of pipelines
08-20-2009
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AP
Enough natural gas to heat every home in North Dakota through at least
two brutal winters was burned off as an unmarketable byproduct in the
state's oil patch in 2008. North Dakota produced a record 62.8 million barrels of oil last year,
up nearly 18 million barrels from 2007. Natural gas, a byproduct of oil
production, was pegged at 86 billion cubic feet " of which 26 billion
cubic feet was "flared" because of the lack of collecting systems and
pipelines needed to move it to market.
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
Find out how your congressmen voted on key Constitutional issues with "The Freedom Index"
08-20-2009
"The Freedom Index" rates congressmen based on their adherence to
constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility,
and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements.
"The Freedom Index" can be found twice a year in The New American magazine, a publication of The John Birch Society
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News Link • Corruption
Private Equity Gets to Sheila Bair
Mortgage Deliquency Rates Set Record; Fixed Rate Mortgages Now B
08-20-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
These are all stories you should read on the Economic Policy Journal site. After clicking on the link and reading the first story just click on the top and it will return to the home page for the other two stories.
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News Link • China
What's Up With China?
08-20-2009
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Washington;s Blog
MarketWatch argues:
A weak set of economic indicators for July laid the foundation for the latest market correction, challenging the Shanghai Composite's nearly doubling in value in the first seven months of the year.
But let's dig a little deeper.
China's current-account surplus is off 32% for the first half of the year.
Financial Times Alphaville writer Izabella Kaminska convincingly argues that China's stimulus money is being recollected back from the people who receive it before it can do any good.
China has lent out a huge amount of money. Marketwatch's David Weider notes that "China loaned $852 billion globally through the first five months of the year".
Vitaliy Katsenelson argues that while China has been blowing a huge bubble in lending, the government may have enough of a surplus to pull it off - at least for a couple of years (especially given that the banks are controlled by the government).
But - at some point in the future
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSNBC PLAYS RACIAL POLITICS WITH DECEPTIVE EDITING, SAYS SAF
08-20-2009
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Second Amendment Foundation
BELLEVUE, WA " The Second Amendment Foundation today accused MSNBC of using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as “racists.” [Reference to Chris]
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News Link • Depression
2010 Great Depression Preview:
08-20-2009
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Investment Watch
And a Video at site to boot!
Structurally High Unemployment For A Decade.
Manhattan Commercial Real Estate Office Sales Plunge 91%.
Emails from a Bank Owner regarding FDIC and Under-Capitalized Banks
Brace for a Wave of Foreclosures, the Dam is About to Break
The FDIC is in Trouble
Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
Personal Savings Rate Slips In June Amid Notable Drop In Income
13 Million Ame
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Will a drug stop us from aging? Let the tests begin.
Trials may well fail, but biologists are enter
08-20-2009
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Twin Cities
It might be the ultimate free lunch " how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet " including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span " without eating less. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it's on such a diet.
It sounds too good to be true, and maybe it is. Yet such drugs are now in clinical trials. Even if they should fail, as most candidate drugs do, their development represents a new optimism among research biologists that aging is not immutable, that the body has resources that can be mobilized into resisting disease and averting the adversities of old age.
This optimism, however, is not fully shared. Evolutionary biologists, the experts on the theory of aging, have strong reasons to suppose that human life span cannot be altered in any quick and easy way. But they have been confounded by experiments with small laboratory animals, such as roundworms, fruit flies and mice. In all these species, the change of single gen
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Treasury Insanity In Support Of Grift
08-20-2009
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The Market Ticker
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $27 BILLION IN 52-WEEK BILLS
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $42 BILLION IN TWO-YEAR NOTES
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $31 BILLION IN THREE-MONTH BILLS
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $28 BILLION IN SEVEN-YEAR NOTES
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $30 BILLION IN SIX-MONTH BILLS
*U.S. TREASURY TO AUCTION $39 BILLION IN FIVE-YEAR NOTES
This is the price of supporting the grift and fraud in our banking system.
I count $207 billion, coming two weeks after a $250 billion dollar week.
Let's annualize - that would be about $5 trillion a year in annualized issuance. My-oh-my how long can this continue?
Who knows. What I do know is that this is absolutely unsustainable, it is approaching 40% of GDP annually, and yet this is what is required to keep all the balls and plates in the air as a direct consequence of our government's decision to sponsor and permit massive financial system fraud to continue.
The world's tolerance for this will eventually end and
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News Flash: MSNBC Declares Chris B. to be White Racist!
08-11-09
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Newsbusters.org
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns." Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
AZ Republic spits in the faces of Arizona activists, with a smile
08-09-2009
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Daniel Heller
Today the editors of our local paper, the ever-dwindling, kind-of-cute Arizona Republic, wrote a scathing opinion article denouncing and patronizing the brave libertarian Arizonans who demonstrated that one of the best ways to exercise your First Amendment right to free speech is by exercising your Second Amendment right to bear arms.
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