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Date Sent: 2009-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 17, 2009 PM edition |
Obama’s War Signals with Iran in the crosshairs -- Senate Passes the Federal Hate Crime Bill
Conservative group offers to sell endorsement for $2M -- Air Force chief of staff acted improperly -- Grain, livestock farmers resist regulation by FDA -- Income Tax Withholding Has Fallen Off a Cliff -- 'Bruno's' Palestinian 'terrorist' plans to sue over film -- Bailed out Bank of America earns $2.4B, ahead of estimates -- Bailed out Citigroup profit soars on Smith Barney sale -- Jumbo squid invade San Diego shores, chew on divers -- Ritholtz: Housing Starts Fall 46% -- Gov. Sanford traveled well on taxpayers' dime -- California Budget Talks Falter as Treasurer Warns of Junk Debt -- VP Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’ (by MISH) -- FDIC's Sheila Bair says 500 Banks Could Fail
-- Senator DeMint speaks against hate crimes bill -- Solving
California's Debt Crisis -- WHO: H1N1 pandemic spreading too fast to
count
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News Link • Iran
Justin Raimondo: Obama’s War Signals - Iran in the crosshairs
07-17-2009
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AntiWar.com
You thought you were safe, now that George W. Bush is out of the White House, and the neoconservatives have gone back to their well-subsidized holes " but you were wrong.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights Murdered: Senate Passes the Federal Hate Crime Bill
07-17-2009
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Google.com/hostednews/ap/
The hate crimes bill was offered as an amendment to a must-pass defense spending bill that the Senate is expected to finish some time next week.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
June housing construction rises more than expected
07-17-2009
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AP
Construction of new U.S. homes rose in June to the highest level in
7 months as builders rushed to pour foundations for homes that must
be completed by the end of November for first-time buyers to take
advantage of a special tax break.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Conservative group offers to sell endorsement for $2M
07-17-2009
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Politico
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx
for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s
endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s president
flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that
included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Air Force chief of staff acted improperly
07-17-2009
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Arizona Republic
A former Air Force general violated rules and regulations when he gave
a Pennsylvania military contractor preferential treatment on a $50
million bid to promote the Thunderbirds Air Show, a Department of Defense investigation has found.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wow! Moths Jam Bat Sonar
07-17-2009
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LiveScience
Tiger moths can thwart attacks from bats by effectively jamming the
bats' sonar, doing so by emitting sudden bursts of ultrasound.
Past research had revealed that many night-flying moths have evolved the ability to hear bat sonar. A number were even seen responding with clicks of ultrasound.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Grain, livestock farmers resist regulation by FDA
07-17-2009
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McClatchy News
A bill to overhaul the safety of the nation's food supply is
confusingly written and must not go forward until the Food and Drug
Administration power over grain and livestock is removed, food industry
representatives and members of Congress said Thursday.
Industry representatives from the American Meat Institute, the National
Farmers Union, and other groups, as well as some lawmakers, don't think
the FDA has enough experience or people to regulate grain and
livestock, a job that traditionally has fallen to the Agriculture
Department.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal maximum (PETM)
07-17-2009
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arclein
No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.
The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models
explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. The study, which was published online today, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Bruno's' Palestinian 'terrorist' plans to sue over film
07-17-2009
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McClatchy News
Ayman Abu Aita knew there was something odd about the Austrian
TV reporter who asked to be kidnapped last year, showed risque
video clips of himself stripping and suggested that Osama Bin
Laden shave his beard so he wouldn't look like a "dirty wizard."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
How to Succeed as an Ayn Rand Character
07-17-2009
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Cracked
The works of Ayn Rand include Atlas Shrugged, a popular novel on the
evils of government regulations, The Fountainhead, the story of
rebellious architect Howard Roark struggling to maintain his integrity,
and Anthem, which I didn't read because you only need the first two to
be trendy.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailed out Bank of America earns $2.4B, ahead of estimates
07-17-2009
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AP
Bank of America joined other major banks in reporting
better-than-expected second quarter income, earning $2.42
billion even as losses from failed loans continued to rise. "But big consumer banks, and Bank of America is the biggest, they are
the ones who have the most to lose in a prolonged consumer-oriented
recession."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailed out Citigroup profit soars on Smith Barney sale
07-17-2009
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AP
Citigroup Inc. surprised Wall Street, reporting a $3 billion
second-quarter profit instead of the big loss analysts expected. Citigroup became the fourth big bank to report strong results for the quarter.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Opinion • Philosophy: Political
The Billings Murders
07-17-2009
Chuck Baldwin
By now, most Americans are familiar with the horrific murder of a Pensacola,
Florida, couple by the name of Byrd and Melanie Billings... This case hits home with me, because they lived in my hometown
of Pensacola.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jumbo squid invade San Diego shores, chew on divers
07-17-2009
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AP
Thousands of jumbo flying squid " aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters
with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles " have invaded the shallow
waters off San Diego....known to attack humans and are nicknamed "red devils" for their
rust-red coloring and mean streak. Those who dive with them there chum
the water with bait and sometimes get in a metal cage or wear chain
mail to avoid being lashed by tentacles.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Gov. Sanford traveled well on taxpayers' dime
07-17-2009
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Politico
On one overseas trip, the state appears to have spent more than $12,000
for the GOP governor’s business-class tickets for a September 2007 trade mission to China, while his aides flew in economy class for airfares as low as $1,900.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Denninger on Homebuilders: What Are They Smoking?
07-17-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
It is truly unbelievable that builders would be ramping construction into this market environment. I thought I had seen everything stupid under the sun, but this, among all else, takes the cake...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Robert Gates: Iran nuclear arms worst threat to security - 'Countdown to War'
07-17-2009
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RawStory.com
"If something is done to prevent them from getting one, the consequences of that are completely unpredictable and frankly, very bad."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Ritholtz: Housing Starts Fall 46%
07-17-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
Incidentally, much of the media reportage on this was simply innumerate " the numerical equivalent of illiteracy. Not just a little wrong, but totally, embarrassingly incorrect.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
07/16/09
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UrukNet
Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip
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Reported by:
Lola Flores
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News Link • Iran
Mystery surrounds crash of 'fit to fly' Iran plane
07/16/2009
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Press TV
With Armenia's civil aviation organization confirming that the Caspian Airlines plane that crashed in Iran on Wednesday had passed all pre-flight safety inspections, the cause of the disaster remains a mystery.
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Lola Flores
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News Link • Media: Internet
Financial Times editor says most news websites will charge within a year
07/16/2009
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guardian.co.uk
The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that "almost all" news organisations will be charging for online content within a year.
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Lola Flores
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News Link • Obama Administration
VP Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
07-17-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Budget Talks Falter as Treasurer Warns of Junk Debt
07-17-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“With every passing day, the state’s credit rating moves closer and closer to the junk pile,” Lockyer said in a statement. “If the Governor and Legislature dump us on that pile, they will end indefinitely the state’s financial ability to...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Senator: FDIC's Sheila Bair says 500 Banks Could Fail
07-17-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., related a comment to him by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair that another 500 banks could fail "unless something dramatic happens."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Solving California's Debt Crisis
07-17-2009
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arclein
The fact is that California needs to create a state bank similar to that of North Dakota just to insulate itself from the type of reckless behavior now smashing up the US banking system. They comment on North Dakota’s long history. For what it is worth, you step across the border and you enter a hotbed of experimentation created by the great depression
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robert klein
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News Link • Constitution
Senator DeMint speaks against hate crimes bill
7/16/09
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Youtube
Video
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Pandemic
H1N1 pandemic spreading too fast to count: WHO (World Health Organization)
07-16-2009
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Reuters
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.
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Jim Stachowiak
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