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Date Sent: 2009-07-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, July 20, 2009 PM edition |
White House delays release of budget -- Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies at CFR
Denninger: Taxpayers on the Hook for $24 Trillion Dollars? -- Liberty Rider cranking through Nevada desert -- Paul Craig Roberts: In An Impotent World Even the Bankrupt Can Prevail -- Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman, CFR Member Picked for State Department Post -- Healthcare is a Good, Not a Right - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. -- Denninger Savages WaPo Defense of Goldman -- Fannie Mae Moves Up Start Date for 125% LTV Loans -- Commercial Real Estate Collapse: Prices Off 7.6% In May -- Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions -- Germany Considers Forced Capitalization of Banks
-- James Howard Kunstler: Is Obama Gorbachev? -- Establishment Paper
Tentatively Admits Fed Reserve "Influenced" by Wall Street -- Dr. Orly
Taitz and Major Cook at recent court hearing in Georgia (Video) -- Obamacare - A Health Care Rationing Scheme to Enrich Insurers, Drug Companies and Large - by Stephen Lendman -- Libertarian Blog Marginalized By Google
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House putting off release of budget update
07-20-2009
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apnews.myway.com/
The release of the update - usually scheduled for mid-July - has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Clinton Outlines Continuation of Bush Policies Under Obama at CFR
07-20-2009
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Informationclearinghouse.info/
“Crippling sanctions” in her words, will follow. Iran must be punished for refusing to bow to the will of Washington, and if there’s a change, it’s that Obama is even more eager than Bush to inflict it.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
"Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock" - July 20th 2009
FreedomsPhoenix Activists: Keith Liberty - Donna Hancock - Thomas Costanzo and The Liberty Rider, Mike Maresco
Issues: Housing - Mortgages - Economy - Police State - Solutions - Gardening - Raising Chickens
(A call from a London reporter wanting to know how much Ernest knew about IEDs, Improvised Explosive Devices)
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News Link • Corruption
Treasury 'failed' to adopt bailout safeguards for $23.7 trillion
07-20-2009
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theHill.com/
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general over the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), will tell lawmakers on Tuesday that taxpayers are being left in the dark about what banks are doing with bailout money...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Denninger: Taxpayers on the Hook for Twenty Four Trillion Dollars?
07-20-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Barofsky said that while the TARP program that Congress passed amounts to $700 billion, the total federal government support since 2007 for the economy and the financial sector could reach a far higher figure of $23.7 trillion.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Paul Craig Roberts: In An Impotent World Even the Bankrupt Can Prevail
07-20-2009
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InfoWars.com
The world is so impotent that even the bankrupt US can launch a new war of aggression and have it accepted as a glorious act of liberation in behalf of women’s rights, peace, and democracy.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Rider cranking through Nevada desert. Can anything stop this man?
07-20-2009
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http://libertyrider.com/
Absolutely amazing pics of Death Valley and Nevada Desert. More great cop stories, more activists, more 130 degree heat, more of everything you have come to expect of Liberty Rider.
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Reported by:
Found Zero
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News Link • Obama Administration
Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman, CFR Member Picked for State Department Post
07-20-2009
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InfoWars.com & WSJ.com
Goldman has recently been referred to as Wall Street’s secret society, with former Goldman employees currently heading the New York Stock Exchange, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury Department, the White House staff, and Merrill Lynch.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
ATS Financials Leaked by Accident
07-20-2009
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CameraFRAUD.com
The city of Pembroke Pines, FL. appears to have accidentally leaked financial information for the private automated ticketing company American Traffic Solutions. (If they aren't doing anything wrong, what do they have to worry about, right?)
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Camera FRAUD
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News Link • Corruption
Denninger Savages WaPo Defense of Goldman
07-20-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
Goldman and these other banks forced the taxpayer to eat their bad bet - that is, their loss. That $13 billion was in fact unearned - they had no right to it, as AIG was in fact insolvent and they would have collected zero...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Can you speak Bureaucrat? Take the fun test! Also Savannah's new Bar Ordnances.
07-10-2009
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www.LCLReport.com
Can you speak Bureaucrat? Take the fun test! Also we examine Savannah new Bar Ordnances and go to the public meeting about the new laws being proposed.
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Reported by:
Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Housing
Obama Desperate: Fannie Mae Moves Up Start Date for 125% LTV Loans
07-20-2009
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HousingWire.com
The HARP is an Obama Administration initiative aimed at helping borrowers refinance their underwater mortgages. Loans owned or serviced by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Is Obama’s presidency threatened?
07-20-2009
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The New Delhi Statesman Rajinder Puri
Even while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pursues her five-day
visit to India, an event has occurred in the USA that could conceivably
snowball into a major controversy to cut short President Obama’s
tenure.
Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution states: “No person except a
US born citizen… shall be eligible to the office of President.”
During the last US campaign a controversy arose about Obama’s
birthplace. Critics were unsure if he was born in the USA or Kenya.
Obama’s campaign committee released a Hawaiian birth certificate on 13
June, 2008. Sceptics alleged that it had signs of forgery.
Obama maintained he was born in Hawaii. One hospital, Honolulu ‘s
Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children, claims it received a
letter from the President declaring his birth there. But White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to authenticate the letter. For
nearly six months the hospital proudly declared Obama was born at its
facility to
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Collapse: Prices Off 7.6% In May
07-20-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
According to Moody's, CRE prices fell in 8.6% in April (about 16% in two months). Talk about cliff diving!
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions
07-20-2009
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InfoWars.com & WSJ.com
And it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Germany Considers Forced Capitalization of Banks
07-20-2009
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spiegel.de/international/
Analysts at the Chancellery, Finance Ministry and Economy Ministry now concur that Germany is at risk of a credit crunch that could worsen the recession, already the deepest since the 1930s, Süddeutsche reported.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Solar eclipse pits superstition against science
07-20-09
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AFP
Indian astrologers are predicting violence and turmoil across the world as a result of this week's total solar eclipse, which the superstitious and religious view as a sign of potential doom.
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Reported by:
Melinda Carey
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News Link • Housing
The Elusive California Housing Bottom: Conditions point to 2013 or later
07-20-2009
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DoctorHousingBubble.com
You’ll notice that from peak unemployment in 1992 to the trough in housing prices in 1996 there was nearly a 4 year lag. Assuming this pattern, we still do not have the peak unemployment figure since we keep moving up.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
James Howard Kunstler: Is Obama Gorbachev?
07-20-2009
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kunstler.com/blog/
It would be one of the supreme ironies of history if it turned out that the US was incapable of ending its most self-destructive rackets peacefully and bloodlessly, while the Russians shucked off its Soviet racket like an old sweater.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Establishment Paper Tentatively Admits Fed Reserve "Influenced" by Wall Street
07-20-2009
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Washington Post
In a startling admission, the Washington Post says "Some fear NY Fed too heavily influenced by Wall Street." (I wonder who those "some people" would be?)
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Reported by:
Paulthecabdriver Farah
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News Link • Obama Administration
Dr Orly Taitz and Major Cook at recent court hearing in Georgia- The Video
07-20-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
Dr.
Taitz brings forward allegations that Barrack Obama is unlawfully
holding the position as President of the United States. She currently
is representing approx. 170 military members including commissioned
officers in a lawsuit to force Barrack Obama to produce his birth
certificate, proving that he is eligible to hold the position of
President.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Libertarian Blog Marginalized By Google
07-15-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Through the Google Blogger flagging system, a number of readers of a libertarian blog, Just a Girl in Short Shorts, who disagreed with the politics and ideology have managed to marginalize, censor and very possibly ended the blog. The blog has been labeled as "offensive content" --a warning splash page inserted, and the moderately popular blog has been de-indexed in the search engines.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor Article
07-20-2009
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arclein
I would like to make a couple of comments. The core working component is a sphere coated with a thin layer of aluminum. It could not be any simpler. Their contribution has been to size down to nanometer scale. That way they are able to approach physical limits of charge concentration while also maximizing available surface area. So far so good.
Rather importantly, third party participants can observe demonstrations of the characteristics of the spheres even one at a time. That makes a convincing proof of concept long before anyone sees real product.
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Solar Cooking
07-20-2009
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arclein
Bøhmer experimented with the concept for a decade, inspired by the simplicity of a solar device invented in 1767 by Swiss physicist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. The cooker, which consists of two boxes nestled inside each other and topped with Plexiglas to trap the sun’s rays, has evolved from a homemade cardboard contraption to a $6 plastic version that went into mass production this spring.
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robert klein
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