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Date Sent: 2009-04-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, April 28, 2009 PM edition |
Mish: GM to Become "Government Motors" -- Gov't: Stern border enforcement not yet necessary
Swine Flu Vaccine Could Take 6 Months -- Mish: Bank of America $70 Billion Short of Capital After Stress Test -- Arlen Specter is switching to the Democratic Party -- Swine Flu Container Explodes on Swiss Train -- Cheney for President -- Home prices post 18.6% annual drop in Feb. -- Terrorists Moving From Afghan Border to Africa -- Pakistani jets, choppers bomb Taliban near Islamabad -- Official: US flu victims may be infecting others -- U.S. top court upholds TV profanity crackdown -- Regulators urge BofA, Citi to boost capital -- Memo: Army Orders Soldiers To Register Their Private Guns -- $25 MILLION Dollar Reward for Obama's Birth Certificate! -- Senate To Sink Mortgage Relief Plan -- Mish: Extreme Home Makeover Depression Edition -- USA Deploys Ray Gun
AZ: Calling all Activists to Workshop tonight
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: GM to Become "Government Motors"
04-28-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Under GM's latest restructuring plan, the U.S. would get at least a 50% stake in the largest Detroit auto maker. But such a major holding would turn GM into a sort of Government Motors, making the federal government the company's de facto bos
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Gov't: Stern border enforcement not yet necessary
04-28-2009
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AP
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared that more draconian enforcement steps are not yet necessary, even as she acknowledged that officials "anticipate confirmed [flu] cases in more states."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Swine Flu Vaccine Could Take 6 Months
04-28-2009
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LiveScience
A vaccine for the new swine flu in humans could take at least six months to manufacture and distribute widely. The reason: Vaccines must be developed from the specific flu strain, tested for safety, sent to manufacturers for mass production, and then
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: Bank of America $70 Billion Short of Capital After Stress Test
04-28-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Fifth Third Bancorp all need more taxpayer handouts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Dynamotive Advanced Pyrolysis
04-28-2009
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arclein
Based on initial test and analysis, the Company currently estimates that it can deliver advanced (second generation) fuels from biomass at a cost of less than $ 2 per gallon of ethanol-equivalent fuel in facilities processing about 70,000 tonnes of b
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hyping the Pandemic: "Just What the Doctor Ordered!!!"
04-28-2009
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SmirkingChimp.com
You see the outbreak of a new zombie strain of influenza with the ground zero being Mexico City plus the immediate secondary outbreaks in New Zealand, Spain, five US states, and Canada were something we didn’t need, or did we?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Swine Flu Container Explodes on Swiss Train
04-28-2009
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spiegel.de/international/
According to the police, a lab technician with the Swiss National Center for Influenza in Geneva had travelled to Zurich to collect eight ampoules, five of which were filled with the H1N1 swine flu virus.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Cheney for President
04-28-2009
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NY Times OpEd
Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, leaves the impression both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
British Headline: Swine flu unstoppable, WHO warns
04-28-2009
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Guardian.co.uk/
The world was now at a "turning period", said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, where it would soon become clear whether the virus was capable of the kind of sustained, large-scale movement between humans that would bring a full pandemic a st
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Home prices post 18.6% annual drop in Feb.
04-28-2009
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AP
Home prices dropped sharply in February, but for the first time in 25 months the decline was not a record, another sign the housing crisis could be bottoming.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Terrorists Moving From Afghan Border to Africa
04-28-2009
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AP
There is growing evidence that battle-hardened extremists are filtering out of safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and into East Africa, bringing sophisticated terrorist tactics that include suicide attacks. Somalia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistani jets, choppers bomb Taliban near Islamabad
04-28-2009
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AP
Pakistani jets and attack helicopters bombed Taliban positions in a district near the capital Tuesday, the military said, in an expansion of an offensive against militants seemingly emboldened by a much-criticized peace deal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Worst case scenario underlies US pandemic plan
04-28-2009
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AP
Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. Government leaders at all levels have spent 4 years planning for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Official: US flu victims may be infecting others
04-28-2009
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AP
The swine flu epidemic crossed new borders with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, as world health officials said they suspect American patients may have transmitted the virus to others in the U.S.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
U.S. top court upholds TV profanity crackdown
04-28-2009
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Reuters
The Supreme Court upheld a U.S. government crackdown on profanity on television, a policy that subjects broadcasters to fines for airing a single expletive blurted out on a live show. In its first ruling on broadcast indecency standards in more than
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Regulators urge BofA, Citi to boost capital
04-28-2009
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AP
Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., which have each received $45 billion in government bailout funds, have been told by regulators that "stress test" results show they may need to raise additional capital, The Wall Street Journal said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Army Orders Soldiers To Register Their Private Guns (IT HAS BEGUN)
04-28-2009
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Rense.com
What kind of BS cover will they come up with for this one?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Torture
Handy Anti-Spin Tool Kit: Getting Traction in the Torture Debate
04-28-2009
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Eyes On Obama
The recent release of Bush administration torture memos has spurred a surreal debate in America surrounding the tactics employed. It is surreal that there even is a debate about something that, for the entire history of the US up until George W. Bush
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Steve Elliott
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News Link • Obama Administration
$25 MILLION Dollar Reward for Obama's Birth Certificate!
04-28-2009
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rewardforobamasbirthcertificate.com via e-mail
"...we will continue to increase the amount of the reward until it is so huge that the American people will begin to question why he has sealed all his background info to hide something..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Housing
Senate To Sink Mortgage Relief Plan
04-28-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
Allowing people to seek mortgage relief in bankruptcy court is opposed by Republicans and enough Democrats to block it. They remain worried that the legislation would unleash a torrent of loan defaults...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mish: Extreme Home Makeover Depression Edition
04-28-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Inquiring minds are watching a pair of videos from Southern California. Allegedly, banks acquired brand new homes in foreclosure processes, the homes were not quite finished and the banks razed these homes rather than fix code violations.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall Sharply in February
04-28-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The Composite 10 index is off 31.6% from the peak, and off 2.1% in February.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
China Organ Harvesting Concentration Camps
04-28-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
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istvan lettang
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Swine Flu Freak Out
04-28-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Another instance of hysteria, to be managed by the public health tyrants.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • World News
The avian flu scam Prototype for all mandatory mass vaccination schemes
04-28-2009
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UAFF
Local law enforcement, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security plans practice drills for vaccinating the entire US population in 48 hours or less.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Humor
Blown-Away Chihuahua Reunited With Owners
04/28/2009
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Associated Press, Yahoo News
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. â€" Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • World News
Swine flu outbreak forces closure of entire school district
04-28-2009
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WOAI
The State Health Department has ordered the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District to close all schools for at least one week. Saturday it was announced that Steele High School would shut down, but new illnesses have prompted a dis
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
USA Deploys Ray Gun
04-28-2009
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arclein
ABL would deter potential adversaries and provide speed-of-light capability to destroy all classes of ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight.
Eliminating missiles in their boost phase would reduce the number of shots required by other e
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