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Date Sent: 2009-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 19, 2009 AM Edition |
Bank woes force Germany into nationalization -- Australia's Toilet Tax charges Aussies per flush
Fed Leaders Issue Bleak Forecast -- A Swiss Bank Is Set to Open Its Secret Files -- Body scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at airport -- Student Arrested For Classroom Texting -- Woman to stand trial for selling pierced cats -- Woman seen tampering with baby food denied bond -- 2 former border agents released from prison -- Accused Financier Scammer Stanford Missing -- California Senate Deadlocked; Republicans Oust Leader -- GOP governors consider turning down stimulus money -- Ariz. paper sues band for using dead officer's pic -- More than 500 protest Obama's arrival -- Activist-eye View Of a 'Free Speech' Zone -- New AG Eric Holder is nothing more than a race baiting shill for the left -- Is FACEBOOK run by D.A.R.P.A’s Total Information Awareness Office? -- Obama Commits $275 Billion To Slow Foreclosures -- Obama's War on Terrorism Resembles Bush's
AZ: Federal Reserve discussed tonight in Yuma; MASSIVE CameraFRAUD Demonstration in Chandler on Friday
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Leaders Issue Bleak Forecast
02-18-2009
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Washington Post
It could take years for the nation to fully bounce back from the recession, according to new projections by the Federal Reserve, who indicated even once the economy starts expanding again, it will be an "unusually gradual and prolonged" rec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Armed With Little but Resolve, and Defending a Hollowed Village
02-18-2009
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NY Times
A terrible mismatch may be shaping up in the Congo. Thousands of teenage boys and their farmer fathers are grabbing machetes, slingshots, axes and ragtag shotguns, wading into the bush to confront a band of experienced killers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
A Swiss Bank Is Set to Open Its Secret Files
02-18-2009
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NY Times
In the hush-hush world of Swiss banking, the unthinkable is happening: secrets are spilling into the open. UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, agreed on Wednesday to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities suspect of using o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Valenti's Sexuality Was Topic For FBI
02-18-2009
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Washington Post
When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatrical, snowy-haired president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Bank woes forces Germany into nationalization law
02-18-2009
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Reuters
The German cabinet approved a law letting it nationalize banks, setting aside a reluctance to seize private property in the latest government intervention worldwide to tackle the financial crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Body scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at Tulsa airport
02-18-2009
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USA Today
For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Student Arrested For Classroom Texting
02-18-2009
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Smoking Gun
A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct...after she ignored a teacher's demand that she cease texting. The girl was frisked by a female cop.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Woman to stand trial for selling pierced cats
02-18-2009
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AP
A Pennsylvania dog groomer has been ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges for selling "gothic kittens" with ear, neck and tail piercings. Her home was raided after the county Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Woman seen tampering with baby food denied bond
02-18-2009
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WSVN
A Broward County judge denied bond to a woman spotted by a Publix shopper pouring an unspecified black liquid into jars of baby food inside the grocery store on the evening of Feb. 12.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
The Green Hereafter
02-18-2009
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Slate
I try to be as eco-conscious as possible when it comes to me. But lately I've been worrying about what to do when I become waste. What's the greenest thing I can do with my remains when I shuffle off this mortal coil?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
2 former border agents released from prison
02-18-2009
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Houston Chronicle
Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a fleeing drug smuggler were released from prison Tuesday and allowed to return to their homes in El Paso.
Jose Compean, 32, and Ignacio Ramos, 40, served roughly two years of their respec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Manhunt: Accused Financier Scammer Stanford Missing
02-18-2009
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ABC News
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is accused of cheating 50,000 customers out of $8 billion dollars but despite raids of his financial empire in Houston, Memphis, and Tupelo, Miss., federal authorities say they do not know the current whereabouts of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Bank accused of fraud gave big bucks to Congress
02-18-2009
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Rawstory
Congress members skirt calls from Raw; Stanford Financial PAC gave $128,000 in 2008
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
California Senate Deadlocked; Republicans Oust Leader
02-18-2009
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Bloomberg
California’s Senate remained deadlocked over a plan to raise taxes to help close the state’s $42 billion budget shortfall as Republicans replaced their leader who sought to build support for the plan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The maestro and the meltdown
02-18-2009
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Poltico
Alan Greenspan had some explaining to do.
In 2000, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward published a biography of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board entitled “Maestro,” with the cover image portraying Greenspan in full oracle mode: testifying
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghanistan: A Yes-We-Can War?
02-18-2009
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Time
If Army General David McKiernan, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gets his way, the total increase over the coming year will be 30,000. McKiernan has said he needs to beef up U.S. forces in Afghanistan to roll back a growing Taliban insurgency, esp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GOP governors consider turning down stimulus money
02-18-2009
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AP
A handful of Republican governors are considering turning down some money from the federal stimulus package, a move opponents say puts conservative ideology ahead of the needs of constituents struggling with record foreclosures and soaring unemployme
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Truth About the Obama Agenda, Part I
02-19-2009
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Wayne Allen Root
The Obama agenda isn’t about saving the American economy. Rather, it is about putting Big Brother in control of our lives. It’s about the Nanny State " big government intrusion into every aspect of our lives
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate
02-19-2009
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New York Post
A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Hussein Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Media: Print
Ariz. paper sues band for using dead officer's pic
02-18-2009
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AP
The Arizona Daily Star sued a local punk rock band for copyright infringement because it used a slain police officer's photo to illustrate its album. The band, Awful Truth, used the photo to promote its album, "Kill a Cop for God."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
More than 500 protest Obama's arrival
02-18-2009
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East Valley Tribune
The protesters, about 500 to 600 strong and growing, began arriving as ticket holders walked in. Mesa police set up a free speech area. They held their signs up high: "Don't tread on me," "Spend all you want, I'll pick up the t
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Activism
The Groundswell Has Begun
Jet Lacey
Muhammad Ali once said “A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.” It would appear that many Americans are starting to feel similarly.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Activist-eye View Of a 'Free Speech' Zone
2-18-2009
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Jet Lacey and Ed Vallejo
I just uploaded over a hundred stills of this morning's activities in Mesa. I will be writing an Editorial Review of what I observed, and will post it when completed. We were had... but I expected it.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Environment
Australia's Toilet Tax will charge Aussies per flush
02/18/2009
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Perth Now
Perth - Householders would be charged for each flush under a radical new toilet tax designed to help beat the drought.
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Media: Radio
Author Jim Purcey "Am I The Only American Who Thinks This Way?" Live tonight 8 pm est
02-18-2009
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America In Distress.com
We need to start demanding that our elected officials are here to serve us and to protect America. We need to remind them that America is our country and, we are in charge.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Housing
Homes: Still Too Pricey to Stabilize
02-18-2009
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Ritholtz.com
Assume that this couple are late 20s/early 30s, and are making decent " but not 6 figure " salaries. Can they afford that starter house? If not, then the entire real estate chain is frozen.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Oil Price History
02-18-2009
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arclein
Although we are now moving to get out of the oil business which well we should, how much oil do we really have that is recoverable? Because of this price shock and the flap over global warming which is a direct challenge to take all fossil fuels of l
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Commits $275 Billion To Slow Foreclosures
02-18-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
How many people will become unwitting interest slaves for the rest of their lives by signing up for one of these "loan modifications"? That is likely to happen if non-recourse loans become recourse loans.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama's War on Terrorism May Resemble Bush's
02-18-2009
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New York Times
Even as it pulls back sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush’s “war on terrorism,” the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor’s approach to fighting Al Qaeda.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Police State
Cameras in Digital Convert Boxes! BEWARE!!!! (Unconfirmed by FP)
02-18-2009
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YouTube
A friend said 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 devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise was right.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Denver Anti-Stimulus Rally: Photo Essay
02-18-2009
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slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com
"No More Pork!" (Now the Republicans get principled???) But then the people had their say too.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
California Drought Breaks
02-18-2009
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arclein
You would think that by now, that our promoters of the sky is falling school of global warming debate would have learned to keep their heads down and to pack their enthusiasm with a surfeit of weasel words.
As my readers know, the twenty year warm
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robert klein
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