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Date Sent: 2009-02-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 18, 2009 AM Edition
 
Dow Drops Almost 4% -- Obama orders 17,500 more troops to Afghanistan

Conflicting Accounts of an ICE Raid in Md.-- Asian Stocks Decline for Third Day as Global Recession Deepens -- Recession will be worst since 1930s, Greenspan says -- U.S. Accuses Texas Financial Firm of $8 Billion Fraud -- Los Angeles nears water rationing -- Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran -- GM, Chrysler to seek more govt aid, cut jobs -- Sen. Burris' Statements to Lawmakers Referred to Prosecutor -- This country is in a serious mess...and we have engulfed the rest of the world in our folly - by Donna Hancock -- St. Louis Fed Chief: Fed Must Inflate Money Supply More Aggressively -- Americans Standard of Living Permanently Changed -- Jury Rules Rancher Didn't Violate Migrants' Rights -- Republicans now supporting nationalization of banks -- Calling The Police To Account - by Henry Porter -- Truth About Facebook -- Ready to kill some Americans? -- Obama signs the Generational Theft Act and Promises Another, Markets Tank… -- Obama, Geithner, and Summers: Three Stooges Destroy World Markets -- Kansas suspends income tax refunds; may miss payroll AZ:Welcoming Obama to Phoenix this morning; Shaq throws a size 23 at Obama
 

A Discourse on The Federal Reserve in Yuma Thursday Feature Article  •  Events: Arizona
A Discourse on The Federal Reserve in Yuma Thursday
Powell Gammill
   At the Freedom Library
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Obama's Schedule in Phoenix This Morning FYI Feature Article  •  Events: Arizona
Obama's Schedule in Phoenix This Morning FYI
Powell Gammill
   In case you are interested in letting the Prez know how he is doing...don't expect the fawning press to cut you any slack as they try to film around you. Bring your cameras.
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Cameras & Microphone built into Digital TV converter boxes News Link  •  Conspiracies
Cameras & Microphone built into Digital TV converter boxes
02-17-2009  •  Youtube 
I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that the many of the digital TV convert boxes that our coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these d  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Prisoner of the System Trailer- The Pat Kobylak Story News Link  •  Police State
Prisoner of the System Trailer- The Pat Kobylak Story
02-18-2009  •  Police Abuse.com 
We now live in a country where the Government can have you locked away,even if you have never committed a crime. Right now this is happening to thousands of people.Right here in the USA.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jim Stachowiak
Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe
02-17-2009  •  Washington Post 
The sell-off came despite the signing of the $787 billion stimulus package by President Obama and as auto executives faced a deadline to submit restructuring plans to the federal government after receiving billions in bailout money.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Dow Drops Almost 4% News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Dow Drops Almost 4%
02-17-2009  •  NY Times 
Worries about the deteriorating financial situation in countries like Romania and Hungary led to a huge sell-off that began overseas and crashed ashore on Wall Street. Every sector sank, with financial stocks leading the way and energy companies fall  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Asian Stocks Decline for Third Day as Global Recession Deepens News Link  •  Economy - International
Asian Stocks Decline for Third Day as Global Recession Deepens
02-17-2009  •  Bloomberg 
Asian stocks dropped for a third day, driving Japan’s Topix index toward the lowest close in 25 years, as the deepening global recession hurts corporate earnings and demand for commodities.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
A year after China quashed revolt, Tibetans simmer with resentment News Link  •  China
A year after China quashed revolt, Tibetans simmer with resentment
02-17-2009  •  McClatchy News 
The majority Han who he says will get no respite from Tibetan frustration this year " or for generations. "After I die," the 53-year-old grizzled herder says, "my sons and grandsons will remember. They will hate the government."  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Blackwater Guards News Link  •  WAR: About that War
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Blackwater Guards
02-18-2009  •  Washington Post 
A federal judge refused to throw out charges against 5 mercenaries accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad square in 2007. The guards' attorneys had argued the government didn't have jurisdiction to bring the charges  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Conflicting Accounts of an ICE Raid in Md. News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Conflicting Accounts of an ICE Raid in Md.
02-17-2009  •  Washington Post 
The boss was not happy. His elite team of immigration officers had been raiding targets across Prince George's and Montgomery counties all night long in search of fugitive and criminal aliens but had netted only a handful. They were well behind  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Obama orders 17,500 more troops to Afghanistan News Link  •  WAR: About that War
Obama orders 17,500 more troops to Afghanistan
02-17-2009  •  McClatchy News 
In his first troop deployment to a war zone as commander in chief, President Barack Obama authorized sending as many as 17,500 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning this spring, a move that appears to mark the formal U.S. troop shift from Iraq t  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Recession will be worst since 1930s, Greenspan says News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Recession will be worst since 1930s, Greenspan says
02-17-2009  •  Reuters 
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the current global recession will "surely be the longest and deepest" since the 1930s and more government rescue funds are needed to stabilize the U.S. financial system.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
U.S. Accuses Texas Financial Firm of $8 Billion Fraud News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Accuses Texas Financial Firm of $8 Billion Fraud
02-17-2009  •  NY Times 
In Texas, Robert Allen Stanford was just another wealthy financier. But in the breezy money haven of Antigua, he was lord of an influential financial fief, decorated with a knighthood, courted by government officials and basking in the spotlight of s  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Los Angeles nears water rationing News Link  •  Domestic Policy
Los Angeles nears water rationing
02-17-2009  •  Reuters 
With a recent flurry of winter storms doing little to dampen California's latest drought, the nation's biggest public utility voted to impose water rationing in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two decades. [When gov't. controls a  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran News Link  •  Iran
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran
02-17-2009  •  Reuters 
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon. Israel planned to target Iranian nuclear scientists with letter bombs and poisoned packages and had set off explosio  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
GM, Chrysler to seek more govt aid, cut jobs News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
GM, Chrysler to seek more govt aid, cut jobs
02-17-2009  •  AP 
GM said it could need up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department, up from a previous estimate of $18 billion. That includes $13.4 billion previously allocated and $91. billion in new loans. The world's largest automaker said it could run out  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Sen. Burris' Statements to Lawmakers Referred to Prosecutor News Link  •  Corruption
Sen. Burris' Statements to Lawmakers Referred to Prosecutor
02-17-2009  •  Bloomberg 
U.S. Senator Roland Burris’s statements to Illinois lawmakers about whether he solicited political donations for former Governor Rod Blagojevich before getting named to the Senate are being reviewed by a prosecutor.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
This country is in a serious mess...and we have engulfed the rest of the world in our folly Opinion  •  Religion: Believers
Donna Says...
This country is in a serious mess...and we have engulfed the rest of the world in our folly
02-17-2009
Donna Hancock
   From a biblical perspective...Is America Babylon the Great?
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FairTax or No Tax? News Link  •  TAXES: Federal
FairTax or No Tax?
February 16, 2009  •  The Price of Liberty 
The bottom line is this: there is no constitutional duty placed on the American people to pay federal income taxes or a 23 % national sales tax to fund programs not authorized by the Constitution. Period end of story!  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Bob Greenslade
St. Louis Fed Chief: Fed Must Inflate Money Supply More Aggressively

News Link  •  Federal Reserve
St. Louis Fed Chief: Fed Must Inflate Money Supply More Aggressively
02-17-2009  •  Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com 
“By expanding the monetary base at an appropriate rate, the FOMC can signal that it intends to avoid the risk of further deflation and the possibility of a deflation trap,” Bullard said ...  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
More Cliff Diving: News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
More Cliff Diving: "Four Bad Bear Markets"
02-17-2009  •  Calculatedriskblog.com 
DOW off 298 points (3.8%) S&P 500 off 38 points (4.6%) NASDAQ off 64 points (about 4.1%)  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
More Info On The Facebook Privacy Change News Link  •  Identity Theft
More Info On The Facebook Privacy Change
02-17-09  •  Melinda Carey 
Facebook has an "irrevocable, perpetual" license to use your "name, likeness, and image for any purpose".  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Melinda Carey
Worst Is Yet to Come: Americans Standard of Living Permanently Changed News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Worst Is Yet to Come: Americans Standard of Living Permanently Changed
02-17-2009  •  finance.yahoo.com/ 
An $8 trillion negative wealth effect from declining home values. A $10 trillion negative wealth effect from weakened capital markets. A $14 trillion consumer debt load amid "exploding unemployment"  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Audio: Shocking Interview with Public Official About How FEMA Is Setting Up Infrastructure For Marti News Link  •  Police State
Audio: Shocking Interview with Public Official About How FEMA Is Setting Up Infrastructure For Marti
02-17-2009  •  Daily NewsCaster 
This is a shocking interview with Doug Williams, writer for Daily News Caster, about a story he’s written entitled “Is FEMA and DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago?”  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jim Stachowiak
News Link  •  Immigration
Jury Rules Rancher Didn't Violate Migrants' Rights
2-17-2009  •  AZCentral.com via Yahoo! News 
BUT... they 'appropriated' (for lack of a better word) $78,000 from Tucson Rancher Roger Barnett before they let him go home!  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Judge Pleads Guilty to Selling Children News Link  •  Criminal Justice System
Judge Pleads Guilty to Selling Children
02-17-2009  •  NY Times 
Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Dave Gallagher
News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Calling The Police To Account by Henry Porter
2-17-2009  •  Guardian.co.uk via DrudgeReport 
From today (In England), it is illegal to photograph the police, despite the fact that they use increasingly aggressive techniques to record us.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
News Link  •  Identity Theft
Truth About Facebook
2-17-2009  •  BlipTV via Rense.com 
Very informative video for anyone with (or considering creating) a Facebook account.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Ready to kill some Americans? News Link  •  Military
Ready to kill some Americans?
02-17-2009  •  Mark Yannone 
DOD/UN survey: How would you feel about popping a cap into dear old Mrs. Jones, soldier?  Read Full Story
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News Link  •  Humor
Obama Names Bill Clinton to Presidential Post
2-17-2009  •  Iowahawk via e-mail from Winslow Joan (Thanks!) 
"I am pleased that Bill Clinton has agreed to come out of retirement to head up this crucial post in my administration," said Obama.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Ed Vallejo
Obama, Geithner, and Summers: Three Stooges Destroy World Markets News Link  •  Obama Administration
Obama, Geithner, and Summers: Three Stooges Destroy World Markets
02-17-2009  •  Market-Ticker.Denninger.net 
Consider "ring-fencing" the United States, pulling all swap lines and protecting ourselves. We cannot backstop the world; we don't have the money and can't raise it. We are tying an anvil to our ankles and jumping into the water,  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Kansas suspends income tax refunds; may miss payroll News Link  •  Economy - Economics USA
Kansas suspends income tax refunds; may miss payroll
02-17-2009  •  By JOHN HANNA 
Don't hold your breath if Kansas owes you money. Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Sarah Perry
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