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Date Sent: 2009-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 27, 2009 PM Edition |
NSA to expand power to eavesdrop on Americans -- Treasury Gives Banks Unlimited Cash Refills
FBI makes first arrest in Stanford fraud case -- Global hunt for tax cheats rocks offshore centers -- Raise gas tax, charge drivers by the mile -- Bangladesh mutiny ends, death toll put at over 70 -- What Every Christian Should Know About The New World Order - Chuck Baldwin -- Obama Administration to Control College Student Loans -- Jim Rogers on the Economy and Obama -- Obama's Bank Bailouts Lead to More Taxes, Possible Capital Flight -- Mexican Prez Vows to Win Drug War by 2012 -- Obama's USA Service held gun buyback program -- CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates -- CNBC Anchors Mortified That Ron Paul Was Allowed Air Time -- In Defense of Greed - by Mark Yannone -- U.S. Economy Shrank 6.2% Last Quarter, Most Since 1982 -- Citigroup: World's Worst Investment to Get Even Worse -- China nears deflation trap as rail freight collapses -- Illegals target sheriff as gang initiation
AZ: Workshop labor needed Sunday
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI makes first arrest in Stanford fraud case
02-27-2009
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Reuters
The complaint details sometimes stormy preparation sessions for Pendergest-Holt in January and February during which the bank's shaky asset base became apparent to a wider circle of officials and to the lawyer -- "Attorney A" -- who lat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Global hunt for tax cheats rocks offshore centers
02-27-2009
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Reuters
Offshore financial centers which have thrived under a veil of bank secrecy will have to embrace transparency to survive a global crackdown on tax cheats that is menacing the private banking sector in Switzerland and beyond. A US tax fraud probe into
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Hot Crescent Moon Venus Conjunction Tonight!
02-27-2009
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arclein
On Friday evening, Feb. 27th, the 10% crescent Moon will glide by Venus, forming a gorgeous and mesmerizing pair of lights in the sunset sky. Moon-Venus conjunctions are not unusual, but this conjunction has some special qualities:
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robert klein
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Raise gas tax, charge drivers by the mile
02-27-2009
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AP
"If government fails to find a new way to raise money, we will suffer grim consequences in the future: unimaginable levels of congestion, reduced safety, costlier goods and services, an eroded quality of life, and diminished economic competitive
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Bangladesh mutiny ends, death toll put at over 70
02-27-2009
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AP
The revolt has raised questions about the stability of Bangladesh and underlined the fragile relationship between the civilian government and the military. The impoverished South Asian nation has repeatedly faced bouts of military rule, returning mos
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hidden Order Problem Solved
02-27-2009
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arclein
It is anyone’s guess regarding where this will take us but understanding the underlying physics is a great start. I suspect that we will be able to design superconducting behavior into a thin layer of atoms. Maybe even print it some day.
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
THAI Advances to Recover World's Largest Oil Resource
02-27-2009
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arclein
This is a timely reminder that THAI technology is continuing to advance. Petrobank Energy is currently building out a CAPRI/THAI pilot well series to complete the technology validation stage.
This is the first commercial field rollout of the techn
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robert klein
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Opinion • Philosophy: Political
Romans 13 Revisited
02-27-2009
Chuck Baldwin
It seems that every time someone such as myself attempts to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters to resist an unconstitutional or otherwise reprehensible government policy, we hear the retort, "What about Romans Chapter 13?
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News Link • Anthropology
13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home
02-27-2009
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AP
Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of mor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration to Control College Student Loans
02-27-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Obama’s proposal to make the government the sole provider of federally backed college lending threatens to diminish Sallie Mae and leave it a servicer and debt collector...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Maria Bartiromo interviews Jim Rogers on the Economy and Obama
02-27-2009
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
He has hired people who are part of the problem. ...These are people [Geithner and Summers] who think the only solution is to save their friends on Wall Street rather than to save 300 million Americans.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Bank Bailouts Lead to More Taxes, Possible Capital Flight
02-27-2009
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evilspeculator.com/
This country is broken and the pirates are running off with the loot. For some reason we are running after them begging to take our last pennies and then to throw us off a cliff.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold, Dollar Break With Past as Safety Buying Spurs Both Higher
02-27-2009
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Kitco.com
The departure of gold prices from their past inverse correlation with the dollar is just another example of the commodities market's ability to surprise and often flummox investors.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
Mexican Prez Vows to Win Drug War by 2012
02-27-2009
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Indy Channel
Calderon said the violence that killed 6,290 people last year -- and more than 1,000 in the first eight weeks of 2009 -- is a sign that the cartels are under pressure from military and police operations nationwide.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner's 19 Bank Bailout Plan: Burning Untold Taxpayer Dollars
02-27-2009
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DoctorHousingBubble.com
If this plan stays and we go forward with this, we can forget about nationalization since so much money will be given into the furnace that is our financial sector. That is, we will burn through our capital and it will be too late.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama's USA Service held gun buyback program in Chicago on 2/15.
02/27/2009
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usaservice.org
In the “Health & Public Safety” section of the website, there is a post for a gun “buy back” event that was presumably held in Chicago on Sunday, February 15. Bryan Garcia, host of the event, offered to pay $1,500 per gun and $6,000 for four guns
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Obama Administration
CIA Adds Economy To Threat Updates
02-27-2009
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infowars.com/ & Washington Post
The addition of economic news to the daily roundup of terrorist attacks and surveillance reports appears to reflect a growing belief among intelligence officials that the economic meltdown is now preeminent among security threats facing the United St
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
CNBC Anchors Mortified That Ron Paul Was Allowed Air Time
02-27-2009
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Prisonplanet.com/
CNBC anchors were left dumbfounded and acted overtly cantankerous yesterday after Congressman Ron Paul’s opening statement at the House Financial Services Committee was broadcast live to an audience of millions.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
Bottom reached
02-27-2009
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HeraldSun.com.au
“Natural living” advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention - the reusable toilet wipe. (Are we being conditioned?... time to start buying pallets of toilet paper to barter with later. Yeah.... you laugh now)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
NSA under Obama aims to expand power to eavesdrop on Americans
02-27-2009
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Rawstory.com
The spy shop that brought you the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program wants to expand its power under President Barack Obama, the nation's top intelligence chief told Congress Wednesday, in a little-noticed intelligence grab
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
No He Can't
02-27-2009
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Anne Wortham for LewRockwell.com
Dr. Wortham is author of The Other Side of Racism: A
Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness which analyzes how race
consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In Defense of Greed
02-27-2009
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Mark Yannone
The communists guiding the world's economies have to destroy individual initiative and its image. Among their tools are illegal property confiscation and spurious accusations of greediness. The commies need correction.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Michael Shedlock: Dear Mr. President, With All Due Respect ....
02-27-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Mr. President, Fannie Mae Reported A Fourth Quarter Loss Of $25.2 Billion. Can you please tell us where you draw the line on taxpayer bailouts of Fannie Mae? Freddie Mac? AIG? Mr. President is there a line anywhere, on anything?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Economy Shrank 6.2% Last Quarter, Most Since ’1982
02-27-2009
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Bloomberg.com
The U.S. economy shrank in the fourth quarter at a faster pace than previously estimated as consumer spending plunged, companies cut inventories and exports sank.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Citigroup: World’s Worst Investment to Get Even Worse
02-27-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog/
Well, the higher investment stake creates an enormous incentive for John Q. Public to continue to pour money into Citi, regardless of valuation. The inept banking giant then has access to infinite amount of capital, courtesy of you, the 1040 filers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Plan: Treasury to Give Banks Unlimited Cash Refills
02-27-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
There’s no price tag on the CAP, at least until the stress tests are over in April. If most of the 19 banks were determined to need additional capital, the Obama administration would have to seek much more Wall Street bailout money from Congress.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
China nears deflation trap as rail freight collapses
02-26-2009
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UK Telegraph
Railway freight in China’s Shanghai region plunged 31% in January and industrial production fell 12%, dashing hopes that Beijing’s stimulus policies will soon begin to fuel recovery.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Immigration
Illegals targeted South Carolina sheriff as gang initiation
02-27-2009
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The Washington Times
The attempted assassination of a South Carolina deputy sheriff was a gang initiation carried out by three illegal immigrants including a 15-year-old boy who was supposed to “kill a cop”
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
UFO Sprites
02-27-2009
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arclein
Researchers have detected the flashes between 35 and 80 miles (56-129 km) from the ground, far above the 7 to 10 miles (11-16 km) where usual lightning occurs. Sprites can take the form of fast-paced balls of electricity, although previous footage ha
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robert klein
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