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Date Sent: 2009-04-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 29, 2009 PM edition |
Homeland Security preps flu quarantine guidelines -- GDP Declines 6.1% in Q1, worst in 60 years
Washington state signs onto ‘popular vote’ compact -- WHO warns outbreak moving closer to pandemic -- Jobless rates rise in all US metro areas in March -- Court allows landmark torture renditions case to proceed -- Obama says he will make passage of an anti-gun treaty a priority -- TX Gov. Declares Swine Flu State Disaster -- GM to force more than 1,000 dealers to close -- Federal Reserve Seeks Capital for at Least 6 Major Banks
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security preps flu quarantine guidelines
04-29-2009
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Raw Story
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to quarantine people with confirmed swine flu infections, according to a newly released memo obtained by CBS News.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GDP Declines 6.1% in Q1
04-29-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The two-quarter contraction is the worst in more than 60 years. The big story for the first quarter was in the business sector, where firms halted new investments, and shed workers and inventories at a dizzying pace ...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Companies mine Web clues for signs of pandemics
04-29-2009
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AP
Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Washington state signs onto ‘popular vote’ compact
04-29-2009
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Rawstory
Washington state has passed a law requiring it’s electoral college votes to be cast in favor of the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nation-wide. "Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the bill Tuesday, but it doesn’t take effect until enou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
WHO warns outbreak moving closer to pandemic: Phase Five Coming?
04-29-2009
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azcentral.com/
BERLIN " The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the swine flu outbreak is moving closer to becoming a pandemic, as the United States reported the first swine flu death outside of Mexico, and Germany and Austria became latest European nat
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless rates rise in all US metro areas in March
04-29-2009
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news.Yahoo.com/s/ap/
The jobless rate jumped to 17 percent in Bend, Ore., a 9.2 percentage-point rise and the second-biggest monthly gainer. Rounding out the top three was North Carolina's Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, which saw its unemployment rate rise to 15.4 percent
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Activists to protest torture, Guantanamo outside White House
04-29-2009
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Rawstory
Human rights activists will parade 60 mock detainees from the Capitol to a park near the White House to protest the 60 Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for release but haven't been let go. Saying that they'll "risk arrest,"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Court allows landmark torture renditions case to proceed
04-29-2009
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Rawstory
A federal appeals court reinstated an ACLU lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary that allegedly helped the CIA transport terror war prisoners to so-called black sites where they were tortured. The Obama administration argued the case’s very existence w
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama says he will make passage of an anti-gun treaty a priority
04-29-2009
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kansasliberty.com/
A national gun rights group says it will fight “tooth and nail” against a vaguely-worded treaty that could ban the reloading of ammunition without a permit.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bilderberg Member: Texas Gov. Perry Declares Swine Flu a State Disaster
04-29-2009
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keyetv.com/ Austin, Texas
During a press conference Wednesday, Perry said the disaster declaration would allow the state to implement emergency protective measures and receive government assistance.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Anthropology
Hobbit Thoughts
04-29-2009
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arclein
In my manuscript Paradigms Shift, I develop the thesis that modern Homo Sapiens Sapiens emerged first in the Indonesian archipelago somewhere around perhaps 70,000 to 100,000 years ago from a hominid distribution that had reached there long since.
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News Link • Energy
Brazilian Oil Rise
04-29-2009
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arclein
The recent discovery of potentially vast oilfields buried beneath a thick layer of salt off the coast of Brazil has become a focus of excitement among many of the world’s big energy firms. Though the total size of reserves is not yet known, govern
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Some Dinosaurs Survived the Asteroid Impact
04-29-2009
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LiveScience
The great splat of an asteroid that might have wiped out the dinosaurs apparently didn't get all of them. New fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived for up to half a million years after the impact in remote parts of New Mexico and Color
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Technology: Software
PGP Complaint Forces ElcomSoft to Change Booth Decor
04-29-2009
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PC World
It isn't the best marketing proposition to sell encryption products next door to a fellow exhibitor who promises they can crack them. That's what happened at a conference, with encryption company PGP positioned 10 feet away from a Russian com
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Derivatives hit Austrian Railroad with record loss
04-29-2009
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Bloomberg
OeBB-Holding AG, Austria's state-owned railroad company, reported a record 966 million-euro($1.3 billion) loss after writing down the value of derivatives that went awry. OeBB's 2008 loss compared with a profit or 42.4 million euros a year e
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM to force more than 1,000 dealers to close
04-29-2009
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msnbc.msn.com/
The company expects to lose 500 Hummer and Saturn dealers when those brands close or are sold, and it expects 400 dealers to close voluntarily. Another 500 would be consolidated into other dealerships, according to the dealer.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Martin Wolf: "Those Who Hope for Swift Return to Normalcy" are "Deluded"
04-29-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
Banks also have significant maturing debt in 2010 and 2011. If they can't roll it at an attractive price, that means balance sheet shrinkage. And believe it or not, the myriad of lending support programs represents only 1/3 of the IMF's estim
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Is Said to Seek Capital for at Least Six Big Banks
04-29-2009
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Bloomberg.com
At least six of the 19 largest U.S. banks require additional capital, according to preliminary results of government stress tests, people briefed on the matter said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Investment Slump
04-29-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Residential investment (RI) has been declining for 13 consecutive quarters, and Q1 2009 was the worst quarter (in percentage terms) of the entire bust. Residential investment declined at a 38% annual rate in Q1.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Environment
Reclaiming the Garden of Eden
04-29-2009
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arclein
Reclaiming the Earth one garden at a time will reclaim the Garden of Eden for humanity and it will be many times larger than the original and as rich and productive. I cannot begin to imagine just how many people could live on Earth as this comes to
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robert klein
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Pandemic Nonsense - Flying Pig Flu
04-29-2009
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August Review
Are globalist fear-mongers driving the media to panic the public into universal healthcare solutions? Or federally-mandated vaccinations?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Science
Plasma Tornadoes Drive Northern Lights
04-29-2009
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arclein
As expected THEMIS continues to surprise us as it maps the plasma surrounding the Earth. We have now discovered that huge tornado like plasma funnels shape electrical flow into our ionosphere to produce the Northern Lights. And that pretty well ends
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robert klein
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News Link • Bailouts
Corporate CFR Members Get Most of the Bailout Money
04-29-2009
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The New American
The man in charge of administering the bailouts is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who served as a staff member of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations
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Jim Stachowiak
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