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Date Sent: 2009-07-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, July 21, 2009 AM edition |
Judge accuses CIA officials of fraud, unseals secret files--California has budget deal, no new taxes
Replacing the Dollar: China's Big Plans for Its Currency -- Oakland first city in US to tax pot -- U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan tests McChrystal's new order -- Groups grow impatient with Obama on fate of detainees -- Gates announces Army being increased by 22,000
-- Some Food for Thought on Immigration - by Glenn Jacobs -- Obama To
Attend North American Union Meeting -- The Conscience of a Bullshit
Artist -- Doug Casey on the Echoes of War -- Economic Growth, Malignant and Benign - by Thomas Knapp -- Treasury / SIGTARP Nonsense - by Brock Lorber -- China: Having Difficulty Raising Debt
Mark Yannone - FreedomsPhoenix
contributor and Arizona Activist found dead; Radio Host, Author,
Writer, and Christian; Alan Stang dies at 80
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Judge accuses CIA officials of fraud, unseals secret files
07-20-2009
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McCLatchy News
A federal district judge ruled the CIA repeatedly misled
him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old
lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping. Lamberth questioned the credibility of current CIA Director Leon
Panetta, saying that Panetta's testimony in the case contained
significant discrepancies, and rejected an Obama administration request
that the case continue to be kept secret. He released hundreds of
previously secret filings.
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News Link • History
Resistance Against Nazi Tyranny by Jews & Germans
07-20-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
It's 65 years since the Valkyrie attempt on Hitler’s life and coup, just one of the forms of resistance against the Nazi tyranny. Particularly interesting are details of revolts within concentration camps and ghettos & other courageous actions.
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News Link • China
Replacing the Dollar: China's Big Plans for Its Currency
07-20-2009
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Time
China's motivations to boost the global standing of the yuan stem from
the same concerns as its calls for a new reserve currency. Greater use
of the yuan in trade would improve the competitiveness of Chinese
exporters by reducing transaction costs and currency risks. By
internationalizing the yuan China can also begin
extricating itself from the "dollar trap," in which the country,
through its trade, amasses giant surpluses of dollars, which forces it
to invest in dollar assets.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Oakland first city in US to tax pot
07-20-2009
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San Francisco Weekly
Mail-in voting closes Tuesday on Measure F, a new ordinance in Oakland
which would impose a special tax on sales of medical marijuana in the
city's dispensaries. The measure would make Oakland the first city in
the United States to have a business tax category for marijuana
merchants.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
No quorum? No big deal, lawmakers say
07-20-2009
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Capitol News Services
When the state House convened Monday, only 26 lawmakers were
present. That is less than half of the 60 people who are elected to
serve.
More to the point, it is less than the 31 required for a quorum.
That didn’t stop House Speaker Kirk Adams from gaveling the body
into session and voting on a procedural motion. So how did he get away
with it?
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan tests McChrystal's new order
07-20-2009
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McClatchy News
An airstrike that Afghan officials allege killed at least 4 civilians is the first test of a new U.S. directive that
American troops let Taliban fighters flee if civilian lives are at
risk.
U.S. officials said it wasn't at all
clear that the civilians had been killed in an airstrike in southern
Afghanistan, saying the casualties appear to have been victims of small
arms fires.
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News Link • Torture
Groups grow impatient with Obama on fate of detainees
07-20-2009
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McClatchy News
6 months after President Barack Obama ordered the closing of the
military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his administration is still
slogging through the cases and policies and will need more time to
complete interim reports due on Tuesday.
Top Obama
administration officials said late Monday that they're still on track
to close the prison in January.
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News Link • North American Union
Obama To Attend North American Union Meeting
07-20-2009
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PrisonPlanet
President Obama will attend the controversial Security
and Prosperity Partnership meeting with Mexican President Felipe
Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper next month, it has
been revealed.
The White House had not responded to requests to verify
Obama’s schedule during the second week of August, however, a statement
from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs titled “Upcoming Travel by the
President,” confirms that Obama will attend the recently re-branded
“North American Leader’s Summit” in Mexico.
“The president will travel to Guadalajara, Mexico,
August 9-10 to attend the North American Leaders Summit with Mexican
President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper,”
the announcement, reported by World Net Daily, states.
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Feature Article • Motivation
The Free Market and its Enemies
Thomas Costanzo
“No Matter whether it is their intention or not, almost
anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. The spending of the rich gives employment to
the poor. But the saving of the rich and
their investment of these savings in the means of production, gives just as
much employment, and in addition makes that employment constantly more
productive and more highly paid, while it also constantly increases and
cheapens the production of necessities and amenities for the masses.” Henry
Hazlitt
“the State, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or
misconduct from the punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the
reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth,
but most certainly will aggravate poverty.” Nassau Senior
“Socialism and interventionism. Both have a common goal of subordinating the
individual unc
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Doug Casey on the Echoes of War
07-20-2009
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Doug Casey
Yes, I couldn’t help but note the long and generally favorable obits on
Robert “the Strange” McNamara, at age 93. The obituaries ranged from
glowingly positive to, at worst that I read, neutral. I was shocked and
disgusted by these things. I considered the man to be a classic
sociopath and a war criminal, among other things. He was one of the
worst human beings ever to have lived.
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
NJ COURT DISMISSES FORECLOSURE FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE NOTE
Thomas Costanzo
In a
stunning victory for borrowers, a New Jersey court has dismissed a foreclosure action filed against
the borrowers by Deutsche Bank Trust Company America as alleged trustee for a
securitized mortgage loan trust after Deutsche Bank willfully, and despite the
entry of three (3) separate court orders, refused to produce documents demanded
by the borrowers which included documents setting forth the identity of the
true owner and holder of the Note and mortgage, the complete chain of title to
ownership of the note and mortgage, payment application histories, and
documents as to the securitized mortgage loan trust. The Court had given Deutsche
Bank multiple opportunities and extensions of time to produce the documents,
but Deutsche Bank continually refused to produce any of the documents
requested, resulting in the dismissal of Deutsche Bank’s foreclosure action. The
Court also
ruled that Deutsche Bank is not permitted to re-file any foreclosure action
until it is prep
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Soviet space shuttle could bail out NASA
07-20-2009
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russia today
The Soviet-era Buran space programme, mothballed 20 years ago, may
be revived. With NASA about to retire its ageing fleet of space
shuttles, there is a pressing need for viable space transport.
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Two
decades ago the Soviet space shuttle Buran blasted off on its first and
only orbital flight. Just a few years later, with the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the programme was shelved.
The Buran was the Soviet Union's answer to NASA’s space shuttle
programme. On November 15, 1988, the shuttle was propelled out of the
Earth’s atmosphere by the specially designed Energia booster rocket
from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan.
Pavel Sharov from Cosmonauts News Magazine explains the advantages the Soviets had over their rivals in the U.S.
“The USSR surpassed the Americans in technology " U.S. shuttles can
only be landed by humans, while th
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News Link • Corruption
Career Suicide for Cap and Trade "Yes" Votes? (Summary of Passage)
07-20-2009
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Shelly Roche
http://bytestyle.tv/node/62
It
comes down to this: Each "representative" that voted to pass Cap and
Trade has violated their Congressional Oath of Office to "well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office." How on earth can
you--in good faith--fulfill the duties of the office by voting to pass
1500 pages of legislation YOU HAVEN'T READ?!
So here's my own
personal Oath: I do hereby solemnly swear to remove from office every
representative who thinks it's ok to pass 1500 pages of ill-conceived
legislation without knowing what's in it.
Seriously. The gloves are coming off. Who's with me?
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://bytestyle.tv/node/62
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