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Date Sent: 2009-03-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, March 30, 2009 AM edition |
GM CEO Wagoner to Step Down at White House Request -- In Iraq, a civil war brewing?
Nikkei Extends Losses After U.S. Task Force Decision -- Regulators See New Role For Fannie, Freddie -- Rising Powers Challenge U.S. on Role in I.M.F. -- Mayor: Fargo levee breeches; more breeches to come -- Dirty bomb threat looms over G20 meet -- Tesla Unveils a Long-Awaited Electric Sedan -- Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ -- The Pirate Party Makes a Bid for the European Parliament -- Freedom Tower name changed to One World Trade Center -- We might be a big tent but the cover charge is steep - by Call Me Oyate -- Thomas Knapp Named News Analyst at C4SS -- Obama worried about the 2nd American Revolution
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks, U.S. Futures Decline on Renewed Bank Concerns
03-29-2009
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Bloomberg
Asian stocks fell, paring the MSCI World Index’s biggest monthly rally since 1991, and U.S. futures slumped as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said some banks will need “large amounts” of government aid.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Nikkei Extends Losses After U.S. Task Force Decision
03-29-2009
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NY Times
Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 2.6 percent on Monday as automakers tumbled on renewed worries about their U.S. peers after a U.S. autos task force said plans submitted by General Motors and Chrysler failed to show how they could be viable.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
GM CEO Wagoner to Step Down at White House Demand
03-29-2009
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NY Times
General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, and new directors will make up the majority of GM's board in a major management shake-up of the country's largest automaker, GM c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Regulators See New Role For Fannie, Freddie
03-29-2009
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Wall Street Journal
The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is considering giving the government-backed mortgage companies another role: helping to finance small mortgage banks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Rising Powers Challenge U.S. on Role in I.M.F.
03-29-2009
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NY Times
Barely six months ago, the International Monetary Fund emerged from years of declining relevance, hurriedly cobbling together emergency loans for countries from Iceland to Pakistan, as the first wave of the financial crisis hit.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
In Iraq, a civil war brewing?
03-29-2009
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Washington Post
A new and potentially worrisome fight for power and control has broken out in Baghdad as the United States prepares to pull combat troops out of Iraq next year. The struggle, which played out in fierce weekend clashes, pits two vital American allies
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Mayor: Fargo levee breeches; more breeches to come
03-29-2009
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Washington Post
Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school warned them of th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Aaron Russo’s "RESTORE THE REPUBLIC" HONORS AMERICAN HERO!
03-30-2009
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Jim Palmisano, http://www.restoretherepublic.com
In the past few weeks the people were made aware of one of the most draconian measures put out by enemies of the Republic in an attempt to pit our law enforcement directly in opposition to the people.
We are speaking of the Missouri Information An
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Jim Palmisano
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News Link • World News
Dirty bomb threat looms over G20 meet
03-30-2009
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IndiaTimes
In a warning that the stakes have been raised " and just days before world leaders gather here for the Group of 20 meeting " a warning was given this week that a so-called dirty bomb on a British city is more likely than ever.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Energy
Freaky Speeder Rides the Wind to World Record
03-29-2009
The British engineer climbed into the land yacht he calls the Ecotricity Greenbird and peeled off a 126.1-mph run across a California desert Thursday to take his place in the record books.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Light-as-Air, Heatproof Nanotube Muscles
03-29-2009
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Technology Review
stronger than steel, as stretchy as rubber, and as light as air. The ribbons, which are made of long, entangled 11-nanometer-thick nanotubes, can stretch to more than three times their normal width but are stiffer and stronger than steel or Mylar len
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip
03-29-2009
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Technology Review
An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain's ability to learn more close
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Water triggers high temperature superconductivity
03-29-2009
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Technology Review
The question now is whether water can do the same trick with other materials at even higher temperatures (strictly speaking high temperature superconductivity is above 30 K). Expect a flurry of papers as Honoso's numerous rivals give the idea a r
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Tesla Unveils a Long-Awaited Electric Sedan
03-29-2009
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Technology Review
Tesla Motors, based in San Marcos, CA, unveiled its Model S sedan, a car that the company has been promising for years. The biggest change compared to the company's Roadster sports car, other than the appearance and price (the base price is half
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ
03-29-2009
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Technology Review
Much like the insulation on an electrical wire, myelin stops current from leaking out of the wire and boosts the speed with which messages travel through the brain--the higher quality the myelin, the faster the messages travel.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
The Pirate Party Makes a Bid for the European Parliament
03-29-2009
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Wired
Activist Christian Engström looks more like a engineer than a buccaneer. But in June he'll be one of 20 candidates running for seats in the European Parliament under the skull-and-crossbones flag of the Swedish Pirate Party.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • World News
Freedom Tower name changed to One World Trade Center
03-29-2009
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NewsDay
The Port Authority, the agency that owns the building at Ground Zero, said Thursday that the signature skyscraper replacing the Twin Towers destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, will be more commonly known as One World Trade Center.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Rick Wagoner to Resign
03-29-2009
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cbc.ca
General Motors Corp. chairman and chief executive Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House. [Not fascism. Nope. Not here. It'll never happen. This is 'merica, we don't do that here.]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Wants to Disarm U.S. Pilots
03-29-2009
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Newsmax
The Obama administration is taking steps to quietly shut down the program that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner cockpits in order to ward off another 9/11-type attack.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
"VW To Launch 258 MPG Car - Cost $600 US" - Reality, or Internet Rumor?
03-29-2009
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oneshift.com via four websites & internet search!
I saw this on Rense.com and tracked it all the way back to a forum post with some impressive pictures! I couldn't find anything from VW about it though... Please post what you find in the comment section. Ed.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Thomas Knapp Named News Analyst at C4SS
03-29-2009
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C4SS.org
He is uniquely suited to explain how libertarian principles, consistently applied, reach beyond the inconsistent market liberalism of figures like U.S. Congressman Ron Paul into full-blown market anarchism.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
TAXMAN: The Video
03-29-2009
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Youtube
This is an appropriate video for the tax season. And it is nice to hear the prophetic Beatles' song once again set to a message.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Quo warranto: One short step before the overthrow
03-29-2009
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The Idaho Observer
The Supreme Court is not our last peaceful means to boot the impostor from the White House.
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News Link • North American Union
Resist the North American Union (Video)
03-29-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
The One World Monopolists have already declared before our Congress, that our borders are to be eliminated by 2010. Are you ready for that?
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • World News
The New World Order gets a warning from (ARM) American Resistance Movement (Video)
03-29-2009
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American Resistance Movement
Members come from every race, religion, gender, nationality, and political affiliation. Our goal to encourage Americans to form and or join local citizen defense groups. And to take a stand against the NWO and NAU, by making a line in the sand.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Obama worried about the 2nd American Revolution
03-29-2009
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ZAPEM
Apparently Obama was pissed off that Dr. Basso’s videos were gaining speed and he “invited him to the White House to discuss the nature of these disturbing videos”.
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Jim Stachowiak
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