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Date Sent: 2009-05-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 22, 2009 PM edition |
GM prepares for bankruptcy -- U.S. dollar falls to 2009 low on ratings worries
Appeals Court Upholds Landmark Case Against Tobacco Industry -- Newburgh 4: 'These Guys Picked the Wrong Town' -- U.S. federal judge weighs DVD copying case -- Wash. state has first death under new suicide law -- Deputy shoves an innocent man into wall, causing a coma -- Retired U.S. Army Col. Ralph Peters Calls for Military Strikes on Media -- Denninger: US Credit Rating Under Fire -- Jekyll Island – May 22nd 2009 - by Ernest Hancock -- Internet Threatened by Censorship, Secret Surveillance, and Cybersecurity Laws - by Stephen Lendman
AZ: Freedom Ride for the 4th Amendment this Saturday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM prepares for bankruptcy
05-22-2009
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Reuters
"All of our discussions that we had, it's very likely that they will go into Chapter 11," said CAW President Ken Lewenza at a Toronto news conference to announce the union's tentative contract agreement with GM.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. dollar falls to 2009 low on ratings worries
05-22-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. dollar dropped to its lowest level this year on Friday and was on track for its biggest weekly fall in two months on growing concerns about losing the AAA-rating status of the United States.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Appeals Court Upholds Landmark Case Against Tobacco Industry
05-22-2009
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Washington Post
A federal appeals court today largely upheld a judge's findings that the tobacco industry violated civil racketeering laws by lying to the public about the dangers of their product.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bondholders Stand Firm Against G.M. Debt Swap
05-22-2009
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NY Times
General Motors, the struggling automaker, inched closer to a bankruptcy filing on Friday when the company’s largest bondholders reiterated they would reject an offer to convert their debt into G.M. stock.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Newburgh 4: 'These Guys Picked the Wrong Town'
05-22-2009
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Time
Burton surmises that authorities had a tip-off that the mosque used by chief plotter James Cromite "was conducive to the radicalization process" and planted an informant among the congregation " which ultimately led the authorities to Cromi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Peter Schiff endorses Steve Lonegan
05-20-2009
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youtube.com
Prominent economist Peter Schiff, who endorsed Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential race, has endorsed Steve Lonegan in the NJ Gubernatorial race.
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Michael Cerisano
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News Link • Property Rights
U.S. federal judge weighs DVD copying case
05-22-2009
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Reuters
The movie companies argued that "RealDVD" software should be banned because it violates copyright law and agreed-upon encryption methods. RealNetworks said that DVD owners have a "fair use" right to make copies of their own DVDs.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Wash. state has first death under new suicide law
05-22-2009
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AP
A 66-year-old woman is the first person to die under [Washington] state's new assisted suicide law. Linda Fleming died Thursday night after taking drugs prescribed under the "Death with Dignity" law that took effect in March.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ancient Termite Spilled Its Guts in Amber
05-22-2009
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LiveScience
One hundred million years ago a termite was wounded and its abdomen split open. The resin of a pine tree slowly enveloped its body and the contents of its gut preserving the microscopic organisms in its gut. These microbes are the forebears of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hyperinflation Genie
05-22-2009
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arclein
We are toying with the prospects of hyper inflation, but this clearly shows that such can be avoided the present printing of money is primarily to accommodate the deleveraging taking place in the global credit system. Thus the money is not going dire
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dragon Tree
05-22-2009
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arclein
The age of these trees and the great likelihood of human transportation makes it an excellent research tool. There are no growth rings to make it simple, but each unique node will have a unique age signature. That means the sampling will be costly, b
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
THAI CAPRI Update
05-22-2009
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arclein
Whitesands is a pilot test of toe and heel air injection with a catalytic sleeve to improve upgrading the produced oil. If it succeeds as fully as hoped, it will permit production of the Alberta tarsands without mining or the use of external fuel.
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Aid
Dambisa Moyo is the Anti-Bono
05-22-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Dambisa Moyo is a beautiful, Zambian-born, Harvard educated economist who is sick of being victimized by Hollywood celebrities and foreign aid. In her book "Dead Aid" Ms. Moyo explains why foreign aid is not working and how there is a bette
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ralph Peters Calls for Military Strikes on Media
5-22-09
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Antiwar.com
A new report for a leading neoconservative group that pushes a belligerent "Israel first" agenda of conquest in the Middle East suggests that in future wars the U.S. should make censorship of media official policy and advocates "milita
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Luxury resorts see 40% occupancy decline
5-22-09
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AZCentral.com
The Phoenician and the Four Seasons Scottsdale at Troon North, top-of-the line resorts that usually hold off on summer rates until June, this year rolled them out in May and joined the deep-discount parade.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Denninger: US Credit Rating Under Fire
5-22-09
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/
This president put in place policies that will bring those deficits down to a sustainable level over the medium term,” Geithner said. He added that the target is reducing the gap to about 3 percent of gross domestic product, from a projected 12.9 per
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Feature Article • Jekyll Island May 2009
Jekyll Island " May 22nd 2009
Ernest Hancock
Every gathering features costumed actors that recreate events and speeches of the revolution that are part of an over all effort to create an atmosphere of patriotism, nationalism and nostalgia. While soothing to many, I am not alone in the concern t
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News Link • History
Oldest Submerged Town
05-22-2009
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arclein
The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four metres of water just off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The ruins date from at least 2800 BC through to intact buildings, courtyards, streets, chamber tombs and some thirty-seven cist gra
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robert klein
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