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Date Sent: 2009-07-14
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 14, 2009 AM edition |
Goldman Sachs executives sell $700 million in stock -- First time budget deficit tops $1 trillion
67 Air Force cadets stricken with swine flu -- C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders -- AG Holder Faces Avalanche Of Work, and Scrutiny -- CIA inquiry raises stakes for Nancy Pelosi -- Rattner Leaves Autos Force, Probe Intensifies -- June budget gap $94.32 billion, record for June -- U.S. mulling mortgage aid for unemployed -- Obama wants Senate health bill quickly -- State budget crunches will slow U.S. economy -- Iowa's largest city may legalize late-night dancing -- H1N1 Flu Resembles 1918 Flu -- DHS’ Border Patrol to Target “Aggressive Driving” in Pennsylvania -- Fed Independence or Fed Secrecy? - by Ron Paul
SpaceX - Falcon I Flight 5 completed orbital insertion successfully
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Sachs executives sell $700 million in stock
07-14-2009
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Reuters
Goldman Sachs
executives sold almost $700 million worth of stock since the collapse
of rival Lehman Brothers last year. Most of the stock sales took place while the
biggest U.S. investment bank was bailed out by the government with $10
billion of taxpayer money
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Budget deficit tops $1 trillion for first time
07-13-2009
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AP
Nine months into the fiscal year, the federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time ever.
The imbalance is intensifying fears about higher interest rates and inflation, and already pressuring the value of the dollar.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders
07-14-2009
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NY Times
Should allies be informed and might they block the access of the C.I.A.
teams to their targets? What if American officers or their foreign
surrogates were caught in the midst of an operation? Would such
activities violate international law or American restrictions on
assassinations overseas?
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Pandemic
67 Air Force cadets stricken with swine flu
07-14-2009
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Denver Post
The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67.The academy said Monday that a total of 121 incoming freshmen with
flu-like symptoms are being kept in dorms, away from other cadets.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA inquiry raises stakes for Nancy Pelosi
07-14-2009
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Politico
The House intelligence committee’s pursuit of a full-scale
investigation into whether the CIA misled Congress raises the stakes
dramatically for Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
If the inquiry shows the CIA concealed information about a covert antiterrorist program, Pelosi may be vindicated for
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Holder Faces Avalanche Of Work, and Scrutiny
07-14-2009
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Washington Post
The attorney general clashed with Congress over national security
policy, fielded complaints from federal judges upset with bungled
evidence and cracked his tooth.
Then came a bombshell 3 days ago that has sent Washington
political circles reeling: Holder's disinclination to appoint a prosecutor
to examine whether interrogators tortured terrorism suspects during the
Bush years.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
June budget gap $94.32 billion, record for June
07-14-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. government rang up a $94.32 billion budget deficit in June,
a record for the month, as the price tag for efforts to prop up the
economy, banks and automakers mounted while revenues weakened.
The Treasury Department said on Monday that June marked the ninth
straight month in which the government had run a deficit. In June 2008,
the budget enjoyed a $33.55 billion surplus. Through the first nine months of fiscal
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Rattner Leaves Autos Force, Probe Intensifies
07-14-2009
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NY Times
Steven Rattner
will leave as head of the U.S. autos task force, which oversaw
bankruptcies at General Motors Corp and Chrysler Group, at a time when
a probe into how the private equity firm he co-founded gained New York
pension business has intensified.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
U.S. mulling mortgage aid for unemployed
07-14-2009
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Reuters
President Barack Obama
is mulling new ways to delay foreclosure for jobless homeowners who are
unable to keep up with monthly payments, an administration official
said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State budget crunches will slow U.S. economy
07-14-2009
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Reuters
Severe budget crunches afflicting U.S. states will put the brakes on
the national economy by as much as seven-tenths of a percent of Gross
Domestic Product in the next 12 months, according to a Goldman Sachs
report.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Iowa's largest city may legalize late-night dancing
07-13-2009
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AP
Dancing the night away in Des Moines doesn’t seem to be at the top of many must-do lists. Maybe because it’s illegal.
An obscure city ordinance outlaws publicly shaking your groove thing in Iowa’s biggest city
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama wants Senate health bill quickly
07-13-2009
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AP
Moving forcefully on his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama
told a powerful Senate chairman he wants health care
legislation ready in the Finance Committee by week's end, according to
numerous Democratic officials.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Light's Repulsive Force Discovered
07-13-2009
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LiveScience
A newly discovered repulsive aspect to light could one day control
telecommunications devices with greater speed and less power.
The discovery was made by splitting infrared light into two beams
that each travel on a different length of silicon nanowire, called a waveguide.
The two light beams became out of phase with one another, creating a
push, or repulsive force, with an intensity that can be controlled; the
more out of phase the two light beams, the stronger the force.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Radio interview discussing government accountability (audio)
07-13-2009
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Christine Smith/Freedom Works! WTAN Radio show
regarding warrantless wiretapping & other surveillance, torture, & covert operations. (Paul Molloy's dialogue with Christine Smith - 23 minutes)
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Christine -
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News Link • Pandemic
H1N1 Flu Resembles 1918 Flu
07-14-2009
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Buffalohair
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lead a team of researchers in studying the *h1n1 flu and made a startling discovery. The h1n1 Swine Flu resembles the infamous 1918 Flu that killed approximately 100 million people. Unlike the common flu strains that settle in the nose and throat this virus attaches itself deep within the lungs causing pneumonia. Now the **World Health Organization calls this strain unstoppable.
Interestingly enough 9 out of 10 obese people who were hospitalized for the h1n1 flu appear to be more susceptible to this strain. It was noted they suffered gastrointestinal complications, blood clots in the lungs and multiple organ failure. Since this virus is in a constant state of flux people will have the opportunity to re-catch this strain as it morphs its way into history.
Unlike the 1918 pandemic this new strain has the all the conveniences of the 21st century to assist it in its travel aroun
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Reported by:
Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Constitution
States' Rights Now more than ever
7/13/09
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Lew Rockwell
The Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people to the federal government, and also that which is absolutely necessary to advancing those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. The rest is to be handled by the state governments, or locally, by the people themselves.....
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Chuck Norris demands audit of the Federal Reserve
7/13/09
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Daily Paul
A force of one: the Federal Reserve
By Chuck Norris, cnorris@wnd.com
I agree with Judge Andrew Napolitano, who said last week, "We know more about the CIA than we do about the Federal Reserve."
The Federal Reserve is the Freemasonry of government agencies. It is a virtual secret society unto themselves " a group of unelected brokers who hold the value of our dollar in the palms of their hands. This one agency, with its power to raise and lower interest rates, has exercised more control over the economy than other government body.
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Must-See Undercover Exposé of Socialized Healthcare!
7/13/09
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Big Hollywood
If you’re like most asinine leftists, you’ve probably been a long time advocate of “Universal Healthcare” without ever having had the opportunity to experience the crappy, decrepit system first-hand… Well here’s your chance… And you better hold on tight, Buttercup, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Kerchner V Obama, lawsuit, July 13, 2009, Washington Times, Mario Apuzzo, Obama not natural born cit
7/13/09
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Citizenwells
Look for this ad in the Washington Times on Monday, July 13, 2009, regarding the Kerchner v Obama lawsuit filed by attorney Mario Apuzzo.
Here is the text of the ad:
Obama is NOT an Article II Natural Born Citizen and therefore is NOT Eligible to be President......
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Wikipedia says Obama born in Kenya
7/12/09
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Worldnet Daily
Wikipedia just can't seem to make up its mind about where President Barack Obama was born.
The free, online encyclopedia written and edited entirely by its users this weekend displayed at least two countries the commander in chief may have been born in " the United States and Kenya.
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Constitution
The Men Who Destroyed the Constitution
07-13-2009
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http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com
In his 1850 Disquisition on Government,
John C. Calhoun argued that a written constitution would never be
sufficient to contain the plundering proclivities of a central
government. Some mechanisms for assuring consensus among the citizens
of the states regarding “federal” laws would be necessary.
Consequently, Calhoun proposed giving citizens of the states veto power
over federal laws that they believed were unconstitutional (the
“concurrent majority”). He also championed the Jeffersonian idea of
nullification. To Calhoun (and Jefferson), states’ rights meant that
the citizens of the states were sovereign over the central government
that they created as their agent, and could only be so if such
mechanisms " including the right of secession " existed.
Without these political mechanisms the forces of nationalism, mercantilism,
and political plunder would relentlessly reshape the Constitution with
their rhetoric, and their efforts would eventually overwhelm the st
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mommy what's a Quadrillion Dollars?
07-13-2009
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korpisworld.blogspot.com
It looks like one can make an honest living out of frivolous lawsuits.
Last
Wednesday, an article was published revealing that our Federal
government was hit with 489,000 lawsuits stemming from the 2005 Katrina
disaster totaling $3,014,170,389,176,41. That's 3 + QUADRILLION
dollars. Being a math teacher, I occasionally come across very large
numbers (not when counting my paycheck), but even I had forgotten what
comes after a billion. Because of this beyond-astronomical number, I
will not likely soon forget that it is quadrillion.
After
my initial shock at such an unfathomably huge dollar amount that was, I
did the math to find the AVERAGE amount of each lawsuit, hoping this
would bring the number into the realm of reasonableness--it didn't.
With 489,000 claims, that comes out to a staggering 6,163,947,626 per
person. THAT'S 6.1 BILLION DOLLARS EACH FOR ALMOST HALF A MILLION
PEOPLE!!!!! That's equivalent to EVERYONE in Atlanta, Georgia
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Here We Go Again: CIT
07-13-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
More than one full year after this nonsense started there is absolutely no excuse for any company to come to the government hat in hand like this and cry economic catastrophe if the government doesn't let it steal from the taxpayers!
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Prez Has Pontificated
07-13-2009
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JPFO
Recently the Obama oligarchy has opined that we all must learn more about slavery in past years - we would like to help. We also must ask why our present government
wants to use the modern version of slave laws to control Americans. We
do not expect an answer, but we will keep asking, as should you.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX - Falcon I Flight 5 Webcast (completed)
07-13-2009
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SpaceX
The (beautiful) launch was completed and the second stage engine cut off in the parking orbit about 8:50 pm PDT. I'm sure there will be videos up soon, but the webcast has ended.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Pandemic
World Health Organization Says Swine flu ‘unstoppable,’ all countries will need vaccine
07-13-2009
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National Post
All
countries will need access to vaccines against swine flu as the
pandemic is “unstoppable,” a senior World Health Organization official
said Monday.(TODAY)
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
Abortion and Sotomayor Hearings Arrests: Former 'Jane Roe' of Roe vs. Wade Arrested with 3;
7/13/09
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Christian News Wire
Today Norma McCorvey, the former "Roe" in Roe vs. Wade, was arrested with three other pro-life advocates at Sotomayor hearings as they decried abortion.
Norma McCorvey, formally the "Jane Roe" of the Roe vs. Wade decision - that led to the death of over 50 million children by abortion - was arrested at the Sotomayor hearings for speaking out against child-killing by abortion....
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Anonymous Watchman
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Feature Article •
Mortgage Revocation
Thomas Costanzo
Recorded interview with - HJR-Bonds
conference call. Jim very patiently starts at the beginning and explains
each step and concept of how the fraud works and why you have already paid for
your house in full.
This is basic information and may b
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS’ Border Patrol to Target “Aggressive Driving” in Pennsylvania
07-13-2009
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Erie-Times News
Since when is a federal law enforcement
agency within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a component of the
Department of Homeland Security, responsible for “monitoring” drunk and
aggressive drivers in Pennsylvania?
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
Fed Independence or Fed Secrecy? - by Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
Claims are made that auditing the Fed would compromise its independence. However, by independence, they really mean secrecy. The
Fed clearly cherishes its vast power to create and spend trillions of
dollars, diluting the value of every other dollar in circulation,
making deals with other central banks, and bailing out cronies, all to
the detriment of the taxpayer, and to the enrichment of themselves. I am happy to challenge this type of “independence”.
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