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Date Sent: 2009-03-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 19, 2009 AM edition |
Federal Reserve to Buy $1.2 Trillion in Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities
Obama's Chief of Staff wrote AIG's bonuses INTO LAW -- Army Investigating How and Why Troops Were Sent Into Alabama Town -- Dismantling The Killer Elite - by Will Grigg -- Forget the bonuses: AIG can't repay its loans, GAO says -- US judge denies bail to former 'enemy combatant' -- Baghdad's water still undrinkable 6 years after invasion -- US prepares civilian 'surge' in Afghan -- Arizona judge dismisses charges in gunrunning case -- U.S. Attorney Declares Government Out to Destroy You - by Greg Dixon -- Peru Begins Export of Beer Made With Coca Leaves -- Two Million Households Now Have Spy Devices In Their Trash Cans -- Corporate meltdown leaves renters in limbo -- Georgia law puts non-offenders on sex registry -- A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage?
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 today
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Chief of Staff wrote AIG's bonuses INTO LAW
03-18-2009
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The DC Examiner
So all of Obama's bleating and faux anger about the bonuses appears to be rooted in regret over either his own incompetence or getting caught in a poltical sh*t-storm of his own making. Or both. Either way it makes his statement from yesterday ri
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
“Stimulus” Fact of the Day: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride … on a Skateboard
03-18-2009
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Americans For Tax Reform
As the Providence Journal reports, the City of Pawtucket in Rhode Island will be using $550,000 in federal “stimulus” money to build a skateboarding park and renovate tennis and basketball courts at a local high school.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Army Investigating How and Why Troops Were Sent Into Alabama Town After Murder Spree
03-18-2009
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CNS News
The U.S. Army has launched an inquiry into how and why active duty troops from Fort Rucker, Ala., came to be placed on the streets of Samson, Ala., during last week's murder spree in that tiny South Alabama community. The use of the troops was a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Welcome aboard a brand new country
03-18-2009
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London Times
A utopian project part-funded by a dotcom tycoon aims to build a giant platform off the coast of San Francisco where people can live free of government regulation. [gosh, didn't they try this off the coast of ah, England?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Dismantling The Killer Elite
by Will Grigg
03-18-2009
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Pro Liberate
To my knowledge, only Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) of The Naked Gun has actually allocuted the unspoken thoughts of a police officer forced to turn in his gun and badge: "the next time I shoot someone, I could go to jail."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Google Earth reveals fish trap made from rocks 1,000 years ago off British coast
03-18-2009
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Daily Mail
For a millennium it has lain undisturbed beneath the waves a stone's throw from one of Britain's best-loved beaches. But now modern technology has revealed this ancient fish trap, used at the time of the Norman Conquest.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Lander gets lucky break as 'water drops' discovered clinging to craft's leg
03-18-2009
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Daily Mail
The Phoenix Mars Lander has spent months searching for liquid on the Red Planet. Now it appears that water has found the intrepid spacecraft. Several photographs taken by Nasa's explorer show what look like water droplets clinging to one of its r
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Forget the bonuses: AIG can't repay its loans, GAO says
03-18-2009
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McClatchy News
Lost in the shouting over the $165 million in bonuses paid to executives of insurer American International Group was this sober message delivered to Congress by a government watchdog: AIG's inability repay its $170 billion in loans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Need a Quality Used Truck? U-Haul Has 13,000 for Sale
03-18-2009
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www.msnbc.msn.com
"These moving vans represent a solid value," O'Loughlin noted. "U-Haul trucks feature lightweight, rust-resistant van bodies and were designed to securely hold and transport precious cargo."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Baghdad's water still undrinkable 6 years after invasion
03-18-2009
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McClatchy News
The stench of human waste is enough to tell Falah abu Hasan that his drinking water is bad. His infant daughter Fatma's continuous illnesses and his own constant nausea confirm it. "We are the poor. No one cares if we get sick and die,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US judge denies bail to former 'enemy combatant'
03-18-2009
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Reuters
A U.S. judge denied bond on Wednesday for an accused al Qaeda sleeper agent after prosecutors said he used his time in America to research information on toxins and was a colleague of suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8
03-18-2009
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Reuters
[if anyone still cares] Microsoft Corp is set to publicly launch Internet Explorer 8 early on Thursday, the latest version of its market-dominating Web browser.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US prepares civilian 'surge' in Afghan
03-18-2009
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AP
Several hundred civilians from various U.S. government agencies " from agronomists to economists and legal experts " will be deployed to Afghanistan to reinforce the nonmilitary component in Kabul and the existing provincial reconstruction teams in t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rare Fossil Octopuses Found
03-18-2009
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LiveScience
It's hard enough to find fossils of hard things like dinosaur bones. Now scientists have found evidence of 95 million-year-old octopuses, among the rarest and unlikeliness of fossils, complete with ink and suckers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Feathers Tied to Origin of Dinosaurs
03-18-2009
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LiveScience
Feather-like structures have been found for the first time in dinosaurs other than saurischians. The finding upends paleontological thinking about feathers, suggesting they might go back to the origin of all dinosaurs, more than 200 million years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Arizona judge dismisses charges in gunrunning case
03-18-2009
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Reuters
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Robert Gottsfield issued a directed verdict of not guilty in the trial of George Iknadosian, 47, the owner of X-Caliber guns in Phoenix. Prosecutors alleged Iknadosian sold hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles and oth
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Fed to pump another $1 trillion into U.S. economy
03-18-2009
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International Herald Tribune (Global Edition NYT)
Having already reduced the key interest rate it controls nearly to zero, the central bank has increasingly turned to alternatives like buying securities as a way of getting more dollars into the economy, a tactic that amounts to creating vast new sum
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Judge Andrew Napolitano on Alex Jones
03-18-2009
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YouTube
Tv: Via Simulcast from The Show-Freedom Watch - Alex also talks with Andrew Napolitano, a life-tenured Superior Court Judge in New Jersey and now host of Freedom Watch on the Fox channel
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Peru Begins Export of Beer Made With Coca Leaves
03-18-2009
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EcoWorldly
A Peruvian company that makes beer from coca leaves now has plans to export its product to countries like China, Venezuela, and South Africa. [the Shanty?] The beer is named Apu, and is already sold in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Capacitor Could Lead to Ultra-Efficient Electric Cars
03-18-2009
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Gas 2.0
A team of US and Korean scientists have announced a major breakthrough in energy storage that could pave the way to a new generation of ultra-efficient electric cars, mobile phones and laptops. Capable of storing power at the same massive density as
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Missouri Police Sergeant Responds to MIAC
03-18-2009
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Youtube
Here is a very cordial conversation with Sergeant Joe Clark, Public Information Officer with the Missouri State Police regarding the recent MIAC fiasco labeling Ron Paul supporters as terrorists. Not a very good liar.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • World News
U.S. Government fears Portable Laser Weapons in the hands of Civilians (LMAO)
03-18-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
Laser and beam weapons have been the stuff of science fiction lore for many years. Good science fiction, however, is based on some kind of science fact and, if done properly, will become less implausible over time.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Propaganda
We're the Government -- and You're Not
03-18-2009
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Youtube
Four years old, and still true. So true. Don't let anyone tell you the current deterioration of our nation was unpredictable. Show this this 10 minute spoof ad from the Department of Homeland Security.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
NAIS Hearing - Response to Flawed Testimony
03-18-2009
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Darol Dickinson
Wednesday I listened with attentiveness to the “Public Hearing” on NAIS. I respectfully was sickened by the flawed information presented by the USDA to members of the committee. I was equally nauseated by the choice of “briefers” USDA had chosen to i
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve to Buy $1.2 Trillion in Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities
03-18-2009
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WashingtonPost.com
The central bank will increase its purchases of mortgage-backed securities by $750 billion, on top of a previously announced $500 billion. It also will double its purchases of debt in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to $200 billion.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
Open Letter to Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture
03-18-2009
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Marti Oakley
The language in NAIS referring to landowners and to livestock owners has been changed to facilitate international agreements and standards, most especially Agenda 21 from the United Nations and World Trade Organization demands and the international c
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Two Million Households Now Have Spy Devices In Their Bins (United Kingdom)
03-18-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
Figures released using the Freedom of Information Act show 42 local authorities have installed the 'spy' devices in rubbish containers to record how much residents are throwing away.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
Corporate meltdown leaves renters in limbo
03-18-2009
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MSNBC
Nicholle Krause first noticed the weeds sprouting in the usually well-manicured grounds of her 320-unit apartment complex in Chandler, Ariz., in December. Soon, signs of neglect began multiplying: Garbage spilled over from the dumpsters, the water in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Georgia law puts non-offenders on sex registry
03-18-2009
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Atlanta Journal & Constitution
Georgia’s sex offender registry has a peculiar twist: There are a growing number of people on the list who did not commit a sex offense. The state's sex offender law tracks most offenders until they die, dictating where they can live and work.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Did Army troops patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama?
03-18-2009
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Civil Liberties Examiner
The Army acknowledges that regular troops were dispatched to Samson, and says an inquiry is under way.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage?
03-18-2009
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Time
There is no baptism certificate issued by the local courthouse and no federal tax benefit attached to the confessional booth, the into-the-water-and-out born-again ceremony or any of the other sacraments that believers hold sacred. Only marriage gets
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed's Decision: Print
03-18-2009
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
What was particularly repugnant was the co-ordinated actions in the market ahead of this announcement. This included a major bear raid on the precious metals, and the panic-covering of the financial shares before the official announcement.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fat Lady Sings: Fed to Buy $300 Billion of Longer-Term Treasuries
03-18-2009
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Bloomberg.com
The Federal Reserve said it will buy $300 billion in Treasury securities and acquire more mortgage and agency debt in an effort to bolster housing and hasten the end of the recession.
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Jack Gregson
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