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Date Sent: 2009-03-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 3, 2009 PM edition |
Bernanke: U.S. May Need to Expand Bank Rescue Beyond $700 Billion
Obama's Economic Team Will Ruin the US the Way they did Russia in 90s -- Ford’s February US Auto Sales Declined 48% as Economy Slumped -- Fed launches new $200B consumer credit program -- HR 45: Family Protection a Crime? -- US January pending home sales drop 7.7% to record low -- Ukraine Teeters as Citizens Blame Banks and Government -- Chris Hedges: It’s Obama’s War Now -- Death Watch: Casinos, Media join Autos on way to Bankruptcy -- Chicago Rushes Head First Into 'Limitless' Surveillance -- Jim Rogers: Let AIG Go Bankrupt, Not America -- Northeast pounded by snowy late-winter storm -- Radio Chip Coming Soon To Your Driver’s License?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ford’s February U.S. Auto Sales Declined 48% as Economy Slumped
03-03-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“Until we get the housing market corrected, confidence back on Wall Street and the credit flowing once again I’m afraid we’re going to be stuck”...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
'Housewives of Orange County' See Coto de Caza Housing Crash
03-03-2009
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DoctorHousingBubble.com
It was in fact, ground zero for the deepest housing delusion I have ever seen. It will make for interesting case studies for future consumer behavior research.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed launches new $200B consumer credit program
03-03-2009
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AP
The Federal Reserve rolled out a much-awaited program aimed at boosting the availability of credit to consumers and small businesses. The Fed will lend up to $200 billion to spur consumer lending " for autos, education, credit cards and other consume
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
HR 45: Family Protection a Crime? Where We Are Headed
03-03-2009
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Robert A. Waters
This is a true story. If you don’t think this can happen here, think again. HR 45 - another nail in the coffin of a free people.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Housing
U.S. January pending home sales drop 7.7 percent to record low
03-03-2009
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Reuters.com
Pending sales of existing U.S. homes fell sharply in January, with the index dropping to a record low, according to a report on Tuesday that showed the deteriorating economy was keeping buyers on the sidelines.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Ukraine Teeters as Citizens Blame Banks and Government
03-03-2009
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NYtimes.com
What is more, the Kremlin would be able to hold up Ukraine as an example of what happens when former Soviet republics follow a Western model of free-market democracy.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Chris Hedges: It’s Obama’s War Now
03-03-2009
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TruthDig.com
Barack Obama has shown that he is as capable of doublespeak as any other politician when he announced an end to the war in Iraq. Combat troops are to be pulled out of Iraq by August 2010, he said, but some 50,000 occupation troops will remain behind.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Market Meltdown Amplifies Baby Boomer Worries
03-03-2009
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CNBC.com
The damage will be evident later this month when the Federal Reserve reports on household wealth in the fourth quarter, which will pick up where the third quarter left off. At $56 trillion, it was some 12 percent below what it was during its peak in
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Winter 1709
03-02-2009
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arclein
Around the end of the Little Ice Age, Europe experienced this awful winter that was recognized as the worst experienced and can be accepted as that because of the living knowledge of the time and place. This article gives us a good description and pl
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Death Watch: Casinos, Media join Autos on way to Bankruptcy
03-03-2009
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MarketWatch.com
The bond market is doing the equivalent of a death watch on several well-known companies, signaling the U.S. economy could be in for more pain as struggling firms renege on loan payments and possibly file for bankruptcy.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: U.S. May Need to Expand Bank Rescue Beyond $700 Billion
03-03-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said policy makers may need to expand aid to the banking system beyond the $700 billion already approved and take other aggressive measures even at the cost of soaring fiscal deficits.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
At under $13 an ounce, is silver under-valued? (Historical data says "Hell, yes!")
3-2-2009
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www.silverstockreport.com
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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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Climate Change
Dr. Hansen Over the Top
03-02-2009
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arclein
Dr Hansen’s utterances have recently gone way over the edge into the land of fanaticism and faith based positions and certainly is not the voice of science. His colleagues are quite right to call him out on this and he would be quite right to back of
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Police State
Chicago Rushes Head First Into 'Limitless' Surveillance
03-2-2009
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Tech Dirt
Under the auspices of fighting crime and preventing terrorism, Chicago’s Police Superintendent Jody Weis is hyping CCTV as having “limitless” crime-fighting potential.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers: Let AIG Go Bankrupt, Not America
03-03-2009
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CNBC.com
"The idea that you have too much debt, too much borrowing and too much consumption and you're going to solve that problem with more debt, more consumption and more borrowing? These people are nuts."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Health of the State
03-03-2009
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Jim Bovard for LewRockwell.com
President Obama promised, “We will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years all of America’s medical records are computerized.”
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Media: Internet
Flickr lets all users upload video snippets
03-03-2009
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RawStory.com
Flickr on Monday began letting users of its free online photo-sharing service upload snippets of video to the website in a budding challenge to Google-owned YouTube.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Northeast pounded by snowy late-winter storm
03-03-2009
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Breibart.com
NEW YORK (AP) - A massive late winter snowstorm pummeled the Northeast on Monday, grounding hundreds of flights, causing spinouts on highways, delaying trains and buses and closing school for over a million children from South Carolina to Maine.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • China
China Acts
03-03-2009
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arclein
If there is ever a time to buy assets, it is now. China sat on over two trillion dollars of surplus cash and was niggardly in taking on new projects. Now they can load up without using extensive banking lines to complete acquisitions. That means t
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
What if...?
03-02-2009
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Liberty Maven
Another great video featuring Ron Paul, his unceasing questioning and reasoning of the Federal Government, it's irrational and counter productive policies. Spread the word.
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Found Zero
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News Link • Homeland Security
Radio Chip Coming Soon To Your Driver’s License? Homeland Security seeks next-generation REAL ID
03-01-2009
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World Net Daily
The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver’s licenses, or “enhanced driver’s licenses.”
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Jim Stachowiak
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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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Reported by:
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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