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Date Sent: 2009-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 17, 2009 PM edition
 
Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions -- Judge: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits

Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins -- NASA lost Apollo 11 footage, but Hollywood restores it -- Israeli military drone use in Gaza under fire -- Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity - by  Peter Schiff -- Cass Sunstein: Reich Minister für öffentliche Aufklärung und Propaganda - by  Dave Hodges -- Street Fighting Man - by  Doug Casey -- Paulson defends work as Treasury secretary -- ‘CIA suspect in Bhutto’s assassination’ -- Max Kaiser slashes Goldman Sachs on French TV

 

Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions News Link  •  Employee and Employer Relations
Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions
07-16-2009  •  NY Times 
A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers.  Currently, employers can insist on a secret-ballot election, a higher hurdle for unions.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
Judge: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits News Link  •  911 / World Trade Center
Judge: Airlines can't question FBI in 9/11 suits
7/16/2009  •  by Harry R. Weber - Associated Press 
A federal judge ruled airlines and other companies in the industry that are being sued by families of terrorism victims can't question FBI agents about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The defendants wanted to depose the agents and sought access to other evidence related to the investigation of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in order to show at trial that the government's failure to catch the terrorists and prevent the attacks mitigates and excuses any alleged fault on the aviation companies' part. The government objected.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chris Wagner
John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, Says: Forced Abortions And Mass Sterilization Needed to Save The News Link  •  Obama Administration
John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, Says: Forced Abortions And Mass Sterilization Needed to Save The
7/16/09  •  Zombie Time 
Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology --.....  Read Full Story
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Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins News Link  •  Conspiracies
Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins
07-16-2009  •  NY Times 
“One theme here is that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan really have emerged as the winners, as the last of the survivors,” said Robert Reich.  Both banks now stand astride post-bailout Wall Street, having benefited from billions of dollars in taxpayer support and cheap government financing to climb over banks that continue to struggle. They are capitalizing on the turmoil in financial markets and their rivals’ weakness to pull in billions in trading profits.   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
House Healthcare Bill Bombshell: News Link  •  Constitution
House Healthcare Bill Bombshell: "individual private medical insurance illegal."
7/16/09  •  Freedom Works 
After reading just 16 pages of the healthcare bill unveiled by House Democrats this week, the Investor’s Business Daily found …a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. Skeptical that that could not possibly be truth, they …sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. And, unfortunately, It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. The relevant language, which you can find your self on page 16 here, in a section talking about “grandfathering” current private insurance, says.....  Read Full Story
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NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it News Link  •  Space Travel and Exploration
NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it
07-16-2009  •  AP 

In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape.

But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue. [oh do I know the comments]

 
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
It's Good For Your Health? News Link  •  Healthcare
It's Good For Your Health?
7/16/09  •  LibertyCast Network 
As Americans die in the streets, our heroic Congress has decided to bring together a massive Health Care bill to stop any further carnage. They are so proficient in fact, they are likely to pass the first draft of the bill without reading the entire thing, as its length pushes one thousand pages, and its language is well lets say “cryptic”; Which again is understandable, considering the citizens are probably listening. Luckily our fearless leader has spearheaded the effort, performing a side show out of an ABC circus tent(Any similarities to real events are strictly coincidental). Congress has balls. They are rinsing and repeating a technique they used late last year to pass the big “Tarp” bill and now, likely will do the same for the health care legislation. And as we saw with the “bail out” no matter how much of an outcry from the constituents, the “representatives” will likely “forget” to check their voice mail.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Nick Visperas
Ron Paul Is the Doctor of Love and of the R3VOLution News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ron Paul Is the Doctor of Love and of the R3VOLution
07-16-2009 

For anyone who doubted it, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the libertarian phenom of the 2008 presidential campaign, is a lover, not a fighter.

And he's spreading love, but not herpes, far and wide across the Internet...

 
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Reported by: Jet Lacey
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies News Link  •  Military
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies
7/14/09  •  Truth is Contagious 
It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology " and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find " grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies. Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot " that’s right, “EATR” " “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site....  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Anonymous Watchman
4409 -- Rebecca Rios looting since 2004 Feature Article  •  Videos by 4409
4409 -- Rebecca Rios looting since 2004
Forty Four O Nine
    Rebecca Rios is our Pirate of the week!
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Israeli military drone use in Gaza under fire
News Link  •  Palestine -- Israel
Israeli military drone use in Gaza under fire
07/06/2009  •  Checkpoint Jerusalem 
During Israel's offensive in Gaza last winter, the IDF took its fight to the Internet with a special YouTube channel to highlight the military's attacks. In one high profile case, the IDF released video of an attack on a group of men loading a truck in Gaza.  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Lola Flores
The Free Market and its Enemies Feature Article  •  Motivation
The Free Market and its Enemies
Thomas Costanzo
  

“Capitalism has been the liberator of mankind.” Richard M. Ebeling  “The principle failure of the market has been an inability to make the masses understand it” James Cook  "If any behavior needs to be reined in, it should be the propensity of people to use the political system to take other peoples money" Jeffery Singer "The Private Economy, Not the government, create


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Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity News Link  •  Employee and Employer Relations
Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity
07-16-2009  •  Peter Schiff 
In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When employers evaluate their labor and capital needs, cost is a primary factor. When the cost of hiring low-skilled workers moves higher, jobs are lost. Despite this, minimum wage hikes, like the one set to take effect later this month, are always seen as an act of governmental benevolence. Nothing could be further from the truth.

When confronted with a clogged drain, most of us will call several plumbers and hire the one who quotes us the lowest price. If all the quotes are too high, most of us will grab some Drano and a wrench, and have at it. Labor markets work the same way. Before bringing on another worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll taxes and other benefits.)  
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Reported by: Thomas Costanzo
Cass Sunstein: Reich Minister für öffentliche Aufklärung und Propaganda Opinion  •  Media: Internet
Cass Sunstein: Reich Minister für öffentliche Aufklärung und Propaganda
07-16-2009
Dave Hodges
   ...forthcoming restrictions on free speech are likely to be imposed on American journalists, especially upon internet broadcasters and writers on various web sites if former Harvard law professor, Cass Sunstein gets his way.
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Street Fighting Man News Link  •  Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Street Fighting Man
07-16-2009  •  Doug Casey 

We live in interesting times. But we're not necessaily cursed.  Longtime readers know my standard response to questions about the severity of the Greater Depression: it’s going to be worse than even I think it’s going to be. “Coming Collapse” books will undoubtedly accumulate into an entire genre in the next few years, as they did a generation ago. This time it’s not just fearmongering, although things won’t get as bad as in James Kunstler’s book “The Long Emergency” and certainly not as rough as in the movies “Road Warrior” or “I Am Legend.” But it’s a good bet that a lot more is going to change than just some features of the financial system. Let’s engage in a little speculation as to the shape of things to come.

I’ve long believed that this depression would not only be much different but much worse than the unpleasantness of the ’30s an

 
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Reported by: Thomas Costanzo
Pa. woman warned about gator finds pot lab instead News Link  •  Drug War
Pa. woman warned about gator finds pot lab instead
07-16-2009  •  El Paso Times 
[pot lab?] officers found heat lamps, fans, soil-testing gauges, gardening chemicals and plants that would yield "a very high-end marijuana."
 
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NYPD typewriter bill nearly $1 million News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NYPD typewriter bill nearly $1 million
07-16-2009  •  UPI 
Dr. Edith Linn, a retired New York police officer and professor of criminal justice, said many of the 500 police officers she interviewed told her the outdated equipment makes them less likely to perform arrests for minor offenses. [so, good?]
 
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Reported by: Brock Lorber
Paulson defends work as Treasury secretary News Link  •  Economic Stimulus
Paulson defends work as Treasury secretary
07-16-09  •  USA Today 
Defending the government's handling of the economic crisis last year, former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that the Bush administration's responses were not perfect but "saved this nation from great peril." Okaaaaaaay....  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Melinda Carey
‘CIA suspect in Bhutto’s assassination’ News Link  •  World News
‘CIA suspect in Bhutto’s assassination’
07-16-2009  •  Press TV 
On Wednesday, Washington-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen quoted US intelligence officials as making ‘prominent’ references to Bhutto as a probable target of the program.     Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jim Stachowiak
Pre-Crime Enforcement Suffers Due to Mass. Decrim News Link  •  Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pre-Crime Enforcement Suffers Due to Mass. Decrim
07-16-2009  •  Boston Herald 

MA police spotted a suspected perv smoking pot in a car filled with coils of rope, a pair of handcuffs and bottles of NyQuil. But they had to let the man go, even though he was awaiting trial on child sexual assault charges.

Said Deputy Chief Russell Jenkins, “Had the law not been changed, he absolutely would have been placed under arrest.”

  
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Reported by: Brock Lorber
Max Kaiser slashes Goldman Sachs on French TV (Publisher recommended) News Link  •  Corruption
Max Kaiser slashes Goldman Sachs on French TV (Publisher recommended)
07-16-2009  •  Ritholtz.com/blog 
 "You can't have a bunch of bankers going to congress for example and saying, we can't audit the Fed, because if you audit the Fed we're going to crash the system so we're holding it hostage. You can't allow that"  Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Numbers Don't Lie: Port of Long Beach Traffic Off 28 Percent News Link  •  Economy - International
Numbers Don't Lie: Port of Long Beach Traffic Off 28 Percent
07-16-2009  •  polb.com/ 
 In the past week several leading economists have stated that the recession is over or about to end. The latest data from the nations largest port does not back up their rosie assessments. Both import and exports are falling...   Read Full Story
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Reported by: Jack Gregson
Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department News Link  •  Humor
Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department
07-16-2009  •  Andy Borowitz 

In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and
 
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Reported by: Powell Gammill
EIGHT GUN BILLS SIGNED BY AZ GOVERNOR Feature Article  •  Gun Rights
EIGHT GUN BILLS SIGNED BY AZ GOVERNOR
Thomas Costanzo
   All anti-rights bills defeated, some pro-rights bills died All anti-rights bills defeated, some pro-rights bills died Basically, the state of Arizona  did very well if you're a rights supporter. by Alan Korwin, Author The Arizona Gun Owner's Guide, Gun Laws of America   Waiting until the last possible moment, Arizona governor Jan Brewer on July 13 signed all eight gun-related bills enacted by the state legislature in 2009. Two crucial bills, Constitutional Carry and penalty reduction for discreet carry without a permit, failed passage at the last minute and didn't make it to her desk. The eight bills signed into law, which will become effective on Sep. 30, 2009 (except SB 1242, effective immediately),

At least 14 gun-related bills were introduced this year, with the few anti-rights bills repudiated early in the session and defeated. One other pro-rights bill died at the end, the effort to reduce required classes to three or four hours f

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