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Date Sent: 2009-05-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 29, 2009 PM edition |
Obama creates "Cyber Tsar" for internet -- Leap in US debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
Workers' Union Approves Deal With General Motors -- Police Tasers:
excessive force or necessary tool? -- China guts budding civil rights
movement -- Economy sinks at a 5.7% pace in 1Q -- Obama Offers Prime Posts to Top Campaign Contributors -- The Facts Thwart Rehab of Colin Powell - by Ray McGovern -- Charges dismissed against men who wielded weapons and blocked election polls -- Bond Vigilantes Confront Obama as Housing Falters -- Obama Demands Right to Recruit Minors for Military -- Mish: Dear Mortgage Refinance Applicant, Expect Delays -- The Housing Hurricane Will Howl Again -- Deadline set in banned Bible study -- Putin on Innovation
Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday with report from Jekyll Island on the "Freedom Movement and "Operation ASU" after action.
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News Link • Internet
Obama creates "Cyber Tsar" for the internet
05-29-2009
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news.BBC.co.uk
Mr Obama said that protecting America's digital infrastructure, the networks and computers everyone depended on every day, would be "a national security priority".
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
05-29-2009
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USAtoday.com/
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Workers' Union Approves Deal With General Motors
05-29-2009
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Washington Post
The United Auto Workers ratified contract changes today that will help General Motors cut costs and restructure the struggling automaker. The Union said 74% of GM's production and skilled-trade workers voted in favor of the deal.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Libertarian Dominatrix
05-29-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
When the day arrives that America is in the depths of an economic and social malaiseâ€"consisting of ineffective and expensive government sponsored safety nets, a stagnant nonproductive economy, riskless non-innovation, government funded zombie companies, labor union operated industries, a general sense of mediocrity and awash in an increasingly worthless currency-- they will turn to America's version of Margaret Thatcher--a libertarian dominatrix
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Tasers: excessive force or necessary tool?
05-29-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
From isolated cases across the country, a debate is emerging over the use of electric stun guns as a "pain compliance" device by law enforcement. To what extent police may use a stun gun against someone who is not actively resisting arrest
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China guts budding civil rights movement
05-29-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
20 of China's most courageous and outspoken civil rights lawyers face being disbarred next Monday, as judicial authorities reject or delay their applications to renew their professional licenses, according to 3 of the lawyers affected.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Obama setting up better security for (your) computers
05-29-2009
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AP
America has for too long failed to adequately protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to take on the job. This is a "transformational moment" for the country
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economy sinks at a 5.7 percent pace in 1Q
05-29-2009
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AP
The economy sank at a 5.7 percent pace in the first quarter as the brute force of the recession carried over into this year. It was a grim first-quarter performance. It marked the second straight quarter where the economy took a huge tumble.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Off-duty NYPD cop fatally shot by fellow officer
05-29-2009
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AP
A plainclothes policeman who drew his gun while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot [in the back?] and killed [without warning?] by a fellow officer who was driving by and saw the pursuit, the police commissioner said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Offers Prime Posts to Top Campaign Contributors
05-29-2009
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Bloomberg
Louis Susman has one thing in common with many of his predecessors nominated to be the US ambassador to the United Kingdom: money. Susman’s credentials stem more from involvement in financing party politics than foreign policy experience.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Soyuz Docks With Space Station & Increases Crew to Six
05-29-2009
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AP
The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying 3 new crew members docked with the International Space Station this morning marking the first time that 6 crew members will be living on board as full time residents.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Propaganda
Ray McGovern: My Take
The Facts Thwart Rehab of Colin Powell
05-29-2009
Ray McGovern
Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell refer to the parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Charges dismissed against men who wielded weapons and blocked election polls
05-29-2009
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Washington Times
Justice Dept. political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Bond Vigilantes Confront Obama as Housing Falters
05-29-2009
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Bloomberg
For the first time since another Democrat occupied the White House, investors from Beijing to Zurich are challenging a president’s attempts to revive the economy with record deficit spending. 15 years after forcing Bill Clinton to abandon his own sti
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 and 5 year old child (Leaked Document)
05-29-2009
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Wikileaks
US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family â€"including a 5 year old child. An additional soldier was involved in the cover-up.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Demands Right to Recruit Minors for Military
05-29-2009
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InfoWars.com
Humboldt County, California voters passed measures F and J last November prohibiting military recruiters from initiating contact with minors. Now the Obama administration is demanding that the law be overturned.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Zenn Funds EEStor
05-29-2009
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arclein
"On May 21, 2009 the Company confirmed EEStor's permittivity test results which exceeded the target level stipulated in our Technology Agreement with EEStor by over 21 percent," said Clifford. "The permittivity milestone is signifi
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electrons and Graphene
05-29-2009
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arclein
The research team believes this increased mobility is due to electrons and other carriers of electric charges in graphene behaving as though they have no mass. 'Although they do not approach the speed of light, the unbound electrons in graphene b
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Mish: Dear Mortgage Refinance Applicant, Expect Delays
05-29-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
This is the desperation move that overworked, understaffed mortgage divisions have to make in order to salvage what can be salvaged. Kicked aside could be at least half of their past two month’s of unlocked, unfunded originations that may ultimately
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: How's The Vise Feel?
05-29-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Argue with that all you want; they're not my numbers. Where's that 4.5% 30 year fixed mortgage folks? Gone, that's where.
Here's reality: Bernanke has lost control of his supposed "intervention."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
The Housing Hurricane Will Howl Again
05-29-2009
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online.Barrons.com
We're out of the eye of the hurricane, but here comes the back half of the storm. A lot of people think that we've seen the worst of the housing crisis. They're talking about green shoots and glimmers of hope, when they should be back in
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
Texan Woman Told to Remove 'Offensive' American Flag From Office
05/28/2009
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Fox News.com
Debbie McLucas comes from a patriotic family â€" her husband and both of her sons served in the U.S. military, and her daughter is currently deployed to Iraq on her second tour of duty as a combat medic.So when McLucas arrived at work at a Texas hospit
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Free Speech
UPDATE: Deadline set in banned Bible study case
05/28/2009
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By Bob Unruh, World Net Daily
Demand letter warns of 'irreparable' harm from First Amendment violation
Code enforcement officials in San Diego who banned a pastor and his wife from holding Bible studies in their home or face fines have taken less than 24 hours to respond
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - International
Putin on Innovation
05-29-2009
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arclein
"We need to move forward, to put the economy on an innovative track," Putin told an audience of business people in Moscow.
"Otherwise, doing nothing, we will simply preserve the current not very effective model which depends very m
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Activism
The Silence of MoveOn
05-27-2009
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The Nation
The most powerful grassroots organization of the peace movement, MoveOn, remains silent as the American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan simmer or escalate.
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Trouser Chili
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