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Date Sent: 2009-05-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 PM edition |
Obama Empowers The Fed While Gutting SEC -- Congress eyes tough rules to oversee pensions
We Are the 'Enemy of the State' - by Michael Gaddy -- Woman handcuffed for not holding escalator handrail -- Motorhome Diaries response to Jones Co. Sheriff Hodge’s Statements
-- U.S. banks wanting to pay back their bailout are kept waiting --
Arrest ordered for mom of boy, 13, resisting chemo -- Geithner fills
out his Treasury team with Clintonistas -- Feds weigh panel to regulate
financial products -- Rockefeller, Buffett, Gates, Turner, Bloomberg, Soros in media-blackout conference -- Border Patrol & County Sheriff Ramping Up Traffic Searches For Guns and Money -- Deadly pneumonia caused by super-bugs on rise -- Swine flu outbreak reveals military plans, gaps -- Obama insists Palestinians must have state, rejects Iran deadline -- Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory
AZ: Breakfast tomorrow, Homosexuality: Nurture or Nature?
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Obama Empowers Federal Reserve While Gutting SEC
5-20-09
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Bloomberg.com
The proposal, still being drafted, is likely to give the Federal Reserve more authority to supervise financial firms deemed too big to fail. The Fed may inherit some SEC functions, with others going to other agencies, the people said.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Congress eyes tough rules to oversee pensions
05-20-2009
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AP
The rapidly deteriorating financial health of the federal agency that guarantees 44 million Americans' pensions is raising alarms in Congress, where key lawmakers are demanding tougher rules to insure vigilant oversight of its multibillion-dollar
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
We Are the 'Enemy of the State'
by Michael Gaddy
05-20-2009
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Lew Rockwell
From its very infancy, our government has made a vital part of its existence the theft of property that belongs to others and the demonization of those who would resist, or those who see the state for what it really is.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman handcuffed for not holding escalator handrail
05-20-2009
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Globe & Mail
Anyone who has ridden an escalator and bothered to pay attention has seen " and likely ignored " little signs suggesting riders hold the grimy handrail. In Montreal's subway system, the friendly advice seems to have taken on the force of law, bac
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Texas Constructs U.S. Border Wall
05-20-2009
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Onion
Calling it an essential step toward securing the Texas border and protecting his people's way of life, Gov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday the completion of a 1,953-mile wall designed to keep out millions of unwanted Americans.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Grumbling Old Fart Addresses Jones Co. Sheriff Hodge’s Statements
05-20-2009
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Motor Home Diaries
People are taking the initiative to get the word about what happened in their own way, including the post “He Had No Idea What Their Plans Were” by the Grumbling Old Fart. His point-by-point dissection of Sheriff Alex Hodge’s statements were pretty o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hasta la Vista Schwarzenegger
05-20-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
As Governor Schwarzenegger was in the Rose Garden basking in the Obama glow of new auto emission and fuel mileage standards, the voters of California were rejecting his proposals to "solve" the California economic crisis. It is the end of
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. banks wanting to pay back their bailout are kept waiting
05-20-2009
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Reuters
But regulators worry that banks trying to get out of TARP are overestimating their prospects and could be forced to return for more money if the economy falls off a cliff.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner works to fill out Treasury team
05-20-2009
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Reuters
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is surrounding himself with former aides to President Bill Clinton as he attempts to rebound from a rocky start even as top-tier vacancies have slowed decision-making.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arrest ordered for mom of boy, 13, resisting chemo
05-20-2009
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AP
Authorities sought to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer who refuses chemotherapy after she fled with her son. A judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in a foster home and be sent for an immediate exa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Feds weigh panel to regulate financial products
05-20-2009
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AP
The Obama administration is considering creation of a regulatory commission to protect consumers of financial products such as credit cards and mortgages. There was a discussion of the proposal at a dinner at the Treasury Department attended by Treas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Rockefeller, Buffett, Gates, Turner, Bloomberg, Soros in media-blackout conference
5-20-09
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IrishCentral.com/news
A top-secret meeting of the world’s richest people to discuss the global financial crisis was held in New York on May 5, IrishCentral.com has learned exclusively
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • TERRORISM
Boone’s Farm bomb dropped in Buna Texas
05-20-2009
Jasper County sheriff’s deputies are looking for suspects accused of dropping homemade bombs outside a home in Buna. It happened outside a home on County Road 796.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Patrol & County Sheriff Ramping Up Traffic Searches For Guns and Money
05-20-2009
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Arizona Daily Star
"...he's trying to sniff out a car heading south to Mexico with smuggled guns, ammunition or cash. "There is no vehicle that has a big neon sign that says, 'Guns and cash here,' It's not as easy as you might think."
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Pandemic
Deadly pneumonia caused by super-bugs on rise: study
05-19-2009
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By Michael Kahn, Reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - Deadly pneumonia caused by so-called superbugs are spreading outside hospitals and represent a growing threat to the public, U.S. researchers warned on Wednesday.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Pandemic
Swine flu outbreak reveals military plans, gaps
05/20/2009
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press, Yahoo News
WASHINGTON " The rapid spread of swine flu from Mexico surprised Pentagon officials, who had been focused on a possible Asian-borne pandemic in a response plan that would give the military a last-resort role in helping to impose quarantines and borde
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Food
Future in Bread Making
05-20-2009
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arclein
I couldn’t resist calling up David Bauer, Farm and Sparrow’s owner and baker, to arrange a visit. Through my talk with Bauer, I realized he represents a new type of baker. He sees himself as part of a larger decentralized, healthy, and diverse food s
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robert klein
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Obama insists Palestinians must have state, rejects Iran deadline
05-19-2009
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News From Jerusalem
Following 4 hours of talks with Obama, Netanyahu told Israeli reporters there are no green, red or yellow lights from the US but rather a shared sense that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons capacity.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory
05-19-2009
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HuffPo
The U.S. Supreme Court handed medical marijuana patients and advocates a resounding victory, refusing to hear a case brought by San Diego County, which has long chafed at implementing statewide medical marijuana laws.
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Powell Gammill
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