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Date Sent: 2009-10-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 2, 2009 AM edition |
US Begins Fiscal Year $11,776,112,848,656.17 in Debt -- Senators cut ID requirement for alien health
Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia -- Senate Panel Softening Insurance Penalties -- CDC Reports 28 Flu Deaths Among Pregnant Women -- Montana Attorney General to investigate APF -- Ken Krayeske fusion center interview Video -- Senate Republicans Criticize Taxes in Health-Care Bill -- Six Banks Take TARP Funds -- Stay away from banks bearing commercial property
-- Congress Approves Tripling Aid to Pakistan -- PHONE CALL PROOF
MANDATORY VACCINATIONS -- Pittsburgh Police Presence - Intimidation of
Democracy -- Senate OKs 1-Mo Emergency Extension Of Federal Government Funding Levels -- Democrats Jarred by Drop In Fundraising -- Ardi: New Oldest Humanoid Fossil A Million Years Older Than Lucy -- Airborne Military Laser Takes Out Truck --
Obama: Iran must let inspectors into nuclear plant within 2 weeks --
Alan Keyes: Government Will Stage Terror, Declare Martial Law --
Montana to feds: we don't want your gun control -- Possibility of a
Nuclear-Armed Iran Alarms Arabs -- Paulson Sought Goldman-Wachovia Merger
AZ: Join us at First Fridays Art walk in Downtown Phoenix as we free minds tonight!; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday!!!!
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Begins Fiscal Year $11,776,112,848,656.17 in Debt
10-01-2009
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CBS
Happy New Year! But leave the hats and horns in the closet. There's nothing to celebrate. Today marks the start of the 2010 federal fiscal year. The only thing good about it is that FY'09 is finally over. Net interest paid on the Debt will amount thi
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News Link • Healthcare
Senators turn back ID requirement for immigrant healthcare
10-01-2009
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The Hill
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
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News Link • Iran
Iran Agrees to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia
10-01-2009
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NY Times
Iran agreed in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium outside Iran to
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senate Panel Softening Insurance Penalties
10-01-2009
The Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to soften the impact of financial penalties that would be imposed on people who did not obtain insurance under sweeping health care legislation. Members of the committee changed the bill to exempt an estima
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News Link • Obama Administration
Texting While Driving Banned for Federal Staff
10-01-2009
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NY Times
Federal employees will not be allowed to text while driving, according to an executive order signed Wednesday night by President Obama.
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News Link • Healthcare
CDC Reports 28 Flu Deaths Among Pregnant Women
10-01-2009
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Washington Post
H1N1 influenza may not be as benign as originally thought, federal health officials reported 100 pregnant women infected with the virus were hospitalized in intensive care units in the first four months of the outbreak, and 28 have died.
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News Link • Police State
Montana Attorney General to investigate APF
10/01/09
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Billings Gazette
HELENA - Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock launched an investigation Thursday into American Police Force, the California company founded by a Serbian immigrant with a lengthy criminal history that is seeking to run an empty, 464-bed jail in Hard
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News Link • Homeland Security
Ken Krayeske fusion center interview Video
9/30/09
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Youtube
Ken Krayeske fusion center interview video..
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Senate Republicans Criticize Taxes in Health-Care Bill
10-01-2009
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Washington Post
Finishing work on a health-care overhaul, a key Senate panel engaged in a spirited debate about whether the measure is "riddled" with tax increases that would violate President Obama's campaign pledge not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Catholic Church Defends Roman Polanski
10-01-2009
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Crime & Federalism
The Catholic Church wants us to move past its child molestation scandal, because, quite frankly, priests were not molesting children. Instead, ala Roman Polanski, they were simply having relations with adolescents (via):
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CHART OF THE DAY: The Amazing Cash-For-Clunkers Cliff Dive
10-01-2009
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The Business Insider
This is what an economic strategy of pulling it forward looks like. In August, car buyers were going nuts with a $4,500 incentive to trade clunkers in for brand new cars. Many warned, of course, that these sales would simply end up decreasing future
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News Link • Constitution
Six Banks Take TARP Funds
10-01-2009
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Bailout Sleuth
Six more banks have been approved to receive funding under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to the Treasury Department's most recent update on bailout activity
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supreme Court to look at second amendment
10-01-2009
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Examiner
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Chicago’s gun bans, opening the door for either a grandiose success for the gun-rights movement, or a detrimental setback.
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News Link • General Opinion
Stay away from banks bearing commercial property-Goldman
10-01-2009
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Reuters
Goldman Sachs on Tuesday advised investors to shy away from banks and insurance companies that are heavily focused on commercial real estate, saying that the downturn in commercial real estate was more severe than Goldman had expected.
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News Link • Free Speech
Yale Self-Censors New Book Examining Extreme Muslim Reaction to Danish Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
10-01-2009
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CNS News
Four years after a Danish newspaper published a dozen cartoons depicting Muhammad, and set off violent protests by Muslims, Yale University Press has touched off protests of its own by censoring the offending cartoons out of a scholarly book it has
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News Link • Constitution
Congress Approves Tripling Aid to Pakistan
10-01-2009
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CNS News
Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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News Link • Activism
Mandatory flu vaccination prompt protests (video)
9/30/09
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Youtube
Mandatory flu vaccination prompt protests video:
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Video: PHONE CALL PROOF MANDATORY VACCINATIONS USA Part 1
7/15/09
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Youtube
This is a really important reupload. There is NO exemption to the up and coming swine flu h1n1 vaccination. If you refuse you will be put before a court of law and even vaccinated by gun point. The laws are in place now as we are in a pandemic level
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fixing bones with dissolvable glass
10-01-2009
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Physics World
Doctoring broken bones in the future could be easier and simpler " thanks to a metallic glass material that can be used to make dissolvable screws, pins or plates.
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News Link • Media: Television
David Letterman Confession: I Had Sex With Staffers, Got Targeted by Extortionist
10-01-2009
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ABC
David Letterman told the audience of his late night talk show that he had sexual relationships with female members of his staff, and added he forked over a bogus $2 million check as part of an extortion plot on the matter.
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News Link • Free Speech
Pittsburgh Police Presence - Intimidation of Democracy
10-01-2009
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Seeing the Forest (HT Liberty Pulse)
I was in Pittsburgh and I have never seen anything like the police atmosphere there. I go back to the 60s protests, including Mayday when they set up machine guns on the White House grounds so I have seen it. But that was more military, not police. T
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News Link • Government
US Senate OKs 1-Mo Emergency Extension Of Federal Government Funding Levels
10-01-2009
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Nasdaq
Facing a midnight deadline, the U.S. Senate Wednesday approved an emergency one-month extension of current funding levels for the federal government.
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News Link • Humor
Big Bird Questions obama's birth??
10-01-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
I wish someone in our government or the court system would find out who he really is....
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News Link • Military
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Rep. says military officials may quit
10/01/09
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Washingting Times
Top U.S. military officials may retire or resign unless President Obama quickly sets forth a clear plan on winning the war in Afghanistan, including whether to send more troop to stop insurgents, says Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican.
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising
9/25/09
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Washinton Post
Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party's hars
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News Link • Anthropology
Hello, Ardi: New Oldest Humanoid Fossil A Million Years Older Than Lucy
10-01-2009
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Popular Science
The new fossil indicates that our ancestors were less chimplike than heretofore thought
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News Link • Testing
Pew! Airborne Military Laser Takes Out Truck
10-01-2009
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Popular Science
In a recent test at the White Sands Missile Range, a specially equipped C-130 plane fried a parked truck with a powerful laser.
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News Link • Government
Alan Keyes: Government Will Stage Terror, Declare Martial Law
10-01-2009
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Gandeste
Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes has given perhaps his most dire warning yet, saying that the Obama administration is preparing to stage terror attacks, declare martial law and cancel the 2012 elections, which is why they are demonizing their
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News Link • Iran
Obama: Iran must let inspectors into nuclear plant within 2 weeks
10-01-2009
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Jerusalem Post
Iran will have two weeks, Obama said, to follow through on the commitments Western officials announced following the seven-way Geneva meetings, the first in which the United States held substantive direct discussions on the Iranian nuclear program wi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Montana to feds: we don't want your gun control
10-01-2009
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Billings Gazette
A lawsuit challenging federal gun control in Montana was filed in U.S. District Court Thursday.
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Hardin jail entrepreneur has checkered past
10-01-2009
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Helena Air
But public documents and interviews with Hilton's associates and legal adversaries offer a different picture, that of a convicted felon with a number of aliases, a string of legal judgments against him, two bankruptcies and a decades-long reputation
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News Link • Iran
Possibility of a Nuclear-Armed Iran Alarms Arabs
10-01-2009
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NYT
CAIRO " As the West raises the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, Arab governments, especially the small, oil-rich nations in the Persian Gulf, are growing increasingly anxious.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Anti-Obama Sign Displayed on Metro Highway
10-01-2009
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NBC Action News
BLUE SPRINGS, MO. " An unusual sign has appeared along Interstate 70 in Blue Springs.If you are traveling in the eastbound lanes of the freeway between Adams Dairy Parkway and the Grain Valley exit you will see a sign that appears to be anti-Presiden
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paulson Sought Goldman-Wachovia Merger, Magazine Says
10-01-2009
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Bloomberg
.Paulson and Federal Reserve ChairmanBen S. Bernanke also told Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mackhe should be willing to sell his firm to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1 a share, according to excerpts from Sorkin’s new book, “Too Big to Fai
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
October Tumble (Drudge) CNBC
10-01-2009
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Drudge/cnbc
Stocks tumbled Thursday after a disappointing ISM report on manufacturing piled on to worries about the economic recovery.
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News Link • Conspiracies
"Obama showed us that the State Secrets Privilege was going to continue to be a tool of choice*
10-01-2009
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Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
The ACLU has called her “the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.”
"Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?"
The gagged whistle-blower goes on the record. She worked as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five d
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News Link • Constitution
The Question is Not "Should Kevin Jennings Be Appointed?"
10-01-2009
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Thinkactlive's Blog
Those who protest Kevin Jennings' appointment to the Department of Education based on his sexual orientation are arguing the wrong question.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Guess who's now banned from Capitol Christmas tree!
10/01/09
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Worldnet Daily
Forest Service forbids 'religious themes' on 5,000 decorations recognizing holiday.
The U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the C
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News Link • Activism
Record! 1.6 million 'pink slips' to Congress in 6 Days
Worldnet Daily
Campaign to put officials on notice called 'unprecedented success'
Seven days ago, it was just an idea to get the attention of Congress.
Now, the "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign is being called an "unprecedented success" and a historic grass-
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News Link • Federal Reserve
US Senate: STOP BEING STUPID
10-01-2009
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The Market Ticker
But if someone "else" (like THE TAXPAYER) will eat (almost all, in this case, essentially 95% of) the loss, then your incentives shift - in a big way.
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News Link • Currencies
Peak Gold?
10-01-2009
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Washington's Blog
Gold bug Byron King claims that there is yet another reason that gold might be a reasonable investment: declining production.
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News Link • Humor
Michelle Obama
10-01-2009
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Reuters
Michelle Obama arrives at the Opera house during VIP's arrive at the Opera house during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Congress in Copengahen October 1, 2009.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The George Soros Plan to Raise Your Taxes
10-01-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
There's more meddling coming from the direction of oligarch and Obama benefactor, George Soros
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News Link • Obama Administration
HUGE NEWS! FEDERAL JUDGE Carter sets Trial Date fo
10/01/09
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GunSlot
The expedited trial has been set for Jan. 26, 2010, just 4 1/2 months
from now!
I and many other concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing
today in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack
Obama to determine his eligi
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