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Date Sent: 2009-03-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 3, 2009 AM edition |
Stocks Drop Worldwide, Treasuries Gain on Concern About Economy -- Gun sales booming
Rush Limbaugh blasts GOP Chairman Steele -- Justices Debate Convict's Right to DNA Test -- More on earmarks: Obama's chief of staff has some in bill -- Whitehouse's new helicopter plans found on Iran computer -- The D-word: Will recession become something worse? -- Trade nominee is 4th Obama pick to owe back taxes -- Raul Castro ousts top Cubans loyal to Fidel Castro -- Jim Rogers Terrific Interview -- Is Spending the Answer? - by Ron Paul -- Nouriel Roubini: Final Cost of AIG Bailout Over $250 Billion? -- Dow finishes below 7,000 for first time since '97 -- Who’re YOU? It Only matters in a Police State. - by Barry Hess -- 'Dr. Doom' Is Scared: Economy Much Worse Than Roubini Predicted
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News Link • Videos by 4409
4409 -- VACCINE GIFT CARDS
03-02-2009
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RP4409
Should we stop allowing our children to be vaccinated. If not, when? When it gets to 100 shots? how about 200? Special thanks to SaveOurSovereignty2
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
4409 -- YOUR studio update: Don't dream it, Do it!
3-2-2009
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RP4409
Read how the history of silver and gold production indicate current silver prices are artificially low. Should you buy silver at today's "bargain" price?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rush Limbaugh blasts GOP Chairman Steele, the GOP
03-02-2009
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Politico
On the same night he was offering the keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rush Limbaugh drew criticism from an unlikely source: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. In a little-noticed interview Saturday
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justices Debate Convict's Right to DNA Test
03-02-2009
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Washington Post
If Supreme Court justices are going to create a constitutional right for convicts to have access to the DNA evidence in their cases, some of them would like to know that the prisoner is at least willing to swear that he is innocent. [crap]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Ex-Governor Blagojevich gets a book deal
03-02-2009
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Reuters
Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed a "six-figure" deal to write a book about his rise and fall and the dark side of politics, his publicist said. The twice-elected Chicago Democrat "plans on exposing the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
More on earmarks: Obama's chief of staff has some in bill
03-02-2009
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McClatchy News
Even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about $8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is scheduled to begin debating Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Ron Paul rips budget, but seek millions
03-02-2009
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Houston Chronicle
Paul played a role in obtaining 22 earmarks worth $96.1 million, which led the Houston congressional delegation, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of more than 8,500 congressionally mandated projects inserted into the bill. His earmarks inclu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Whitehouse's new helicopter plans found on Iran computer
03-02-2009
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Reuters
Engineering documents about one of two types of helicopters in the U.S. presidential fleet were found on a computer in Iran after they were inadvertently disclosed by an American defense industry executive last year, according to a cybersecurity comp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The D-word: Will recession become something worse?
03-02-2009
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AP
A Depression doesn't have to be Great " bread lines, rampant unemployment, a wipeout in the stock market. The economy can sink into a milder depression, the kind spelled with a lowercase "d." And it may be happening now.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Trade nominee is 4th Obama pick to owe back taxes
03-02-2009
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AP
Another Obama administration nominee has tax troubles. This time, it's Ron Kirk, the president's choice to be U.S. trade representative. Kirk owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to pay them
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Oldest Fossil Brain Find Is 'Really Bizarre'
03-02-2009
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LiveScience
Paleontologists recently discovered the oldest known brain nestled within a 300-million-year-old fish fossil from Kansas. The rare find provides an unusually detailed view of brain structure in prehistoric life. It similarly sheds light on the extinc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Obama releases secret Bush torture memos
03-02-2009
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AP
The Memos. Bush-era secrets revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Raul Castro ousts top Cubans loyal to Fidel Castro
03-02-2009
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AP
President Raul Castro abruptly ousted some of Cuba's most powerful officials, remaking the government in the biggest shakeup since he took over from his ailing brother Fidel Castro a year ago. The changes replaced some key Fidel loyalists, includ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Jim Rogers Terrific Interview
03-02-2009
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from DailyPaul.com
"If you don't face reality and you sit there and twiddle along and believe Mr Bernanke that everything is OK, you are going to get hit by a two-by-four and it's going to hurt very, very, very badly, so I would urge you to be prepared<
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Constitution Revolution Trailer - Calling All Remaining Patriots!
03-02-2009
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1776RonPaul2012
This is a trailer for the upcoming effort to restore the constitution of The United States of America. We have a big campaign planned, and this trailer is only the beginning.
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Donna Hancock
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Reference Link • Legislative Mischief
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act at Overlawyered
overlawyered.com
If you think this is going to end with handcrafted toys, books, and ATVs, you are sorely mistaken. Boats, skis (snow and water), FLOTATION DEVICES, bats, balls, gloves, footballs, pads, jerseys, DAYCARE - your child's childhood is over.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Future Predictions
Computers Will Never Be Allowed to Think
03-02-2009
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Philip Brocoum - Rhyme and reason.
The technology is inevitable: computers will be able to think in the future. That’s not what I’m worried about. I’m worried that we humans won’t be able to handle it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Dirt Bikes and Quads Packed Away
03-02-2009
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Republican American
Congressional fear that kids might start snacking on batteries and brakes has put a complete kibosh on selling them.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Kids, Don't Lick Your Dirt Bikes, OK?
03-02-2009
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"I had to remove $20,000 worth of vehicles from my sales floor because some of the metal alloy components, like valve stems and brake pads, contain lead and aren't safe for licking. You know how those kids love to lick a valve stem."
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Feature Article • Gun Rights
Gun sales booming
Mike Dugger
Gun sales are booming while the overall economy collapses, but you aren't likely to hear about it from the mainstream media. To get the real picture of the current gun-buying panic you must view this YouTube video.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Nouriel Roubini: Final Cost of AIG Bailout Over $250 Billion?
03-02-2009
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CNBC.com in Hong Kong, China
Well it's not just a bailout of the shareholders of AIG, but a bailout of the counterparties to AIG, their creditors like GS, ML and every bank and broker here and in Europe, and without all this $160 billion dollars --- all these institutions wo
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks Drop Worldwide, Treasuries Gain on Concern About Economy
03-02-2009
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Bloomberg.com
The Dow decreased 299.64 points, or 4.2 percent, to 6,763.29. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 4.7 percent to 700.82, the lowest close since October 1996. Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index tumbled 5 percent
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dow finishes below 7,000 for first time since '97
03-02-2009
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Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer via Yahoo
NEW YORK (AP) -- A relentless sell-off in the stock market Monday blew through barriers that would have been unthinkable just weeks ago, and investors warned there was no reason to believe buyers will return anytime soon.
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Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • Arizona's Top News
Theft is still theft, even by Government.
Who’re YOU?
It Only matters in a Police State.
03-02-2009
Barry Hess
The ideal in a social communist society is absolute uniformity in the law to suppress individual Rights. The ideal in a free society is absolute uniformity in the law to protect individual Rights. (Arizona legislation - 'Hood for the Hangman'
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S&P back to 1996 Level and Four Bad Bear Markets
03-02-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The Dow is down more than 55% since it's all time high of over 14,000 in October of 2007, this is the largest correction since the Great Depression.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Dr. Doom' Is Scared: Economy Much Worse Than Roubini Predicted
03-02-2009
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finance.yahoo.com/
"I was one of most bearish people [but] the economy has surprised the bears on the downside," says Roubini of NYU's Stern School and RGE Monitor. "What's happening in the world now is scary."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Political Theory
Vagueness as a Political Strategy
03-02-2009
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mises.org / Gary Galles
[Details] would be trumpeted at every opportunity, proving to a skeptical public he really had the answers, since concealing rather than revealing pays only when better informed citizens would be more inclined to reject a plan.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
The US Deficit in Global Perspective
03-02-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog/
If the government fails in securing funding, a very high probability of systemic collapse.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • History
DNA Proves Author Alex Haley Had Scottish Roots
03-02-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
The tests have established that Haley " whose work is credited with helping transform the self-image of millions of black Americans " is directly descended from a Scottish paternal bloodline.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
A Voice in the Wilderness No More
03-02-2009
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Guardian.co.uk via Rense.com
"Notice how all these assholes who are giving these talks, they're saying exactly the same thing Ron Paul said last year?"
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Ed Vallejo
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