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Date Sent: 2009-10-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 9, 2009 PM edition |
Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus -- Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Airports To Screen Passengers For H1N1 Symptoms -- Camp Keating That Was Attacked is Abandoned -- US, other nations stop counting pandemic flu cases -- UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to avoid extradition to US -- Did Greenspan Know What He Was Doing? -- Obey casts doubt on troop surge -- America's Internet police: The FTC gets ready to investigate bloggers
-- Ugly NYC Commercial Real Estate -- Jim Rogers-Abolish the Federal
Reserve-Buy Silver and Gold -- "Ravenwood" Comes To America - by Chuck
Baldwin -- All LA Co. medical pot dispensaries face prosecution, DA
says -- Free Speech and the Internet Under Assault from Multiple
Sources -- Gerald Celente: The US Dollar is finished -- U.S. Senate proposes 14-week unemployment extension -- Peter Schiff: Gold to hit $5,000 per ounce
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus
10-09-2009
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Google
Several bills would issue extra payments to the more than 50 million Social Security recipients, to make up for the lack of a cost-of-living increase next year. One bill would set the one-time payments at $250, matching the amount paid to Social Secu
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News Link • Obama Administration
In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
10-09-2009
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AP
[no it is not a Saturday Night Live skit] President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperat
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News Link • Government
F.H.A. Problems Raising Concern of Policy Makers
10-09-2009
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NYT
Problems at the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages with low down payments, are becoming so acute that some experts warn the agency might need a federal bailout.
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News Link • Corruption
Derivatives Lobby Links With New Democrats to Blunt Obama Plan
10-09-2009
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Bloomberg
As President Barack Obama vowed in a Sept. 14 speech in New York’s Federal Hall to correct “reckless behavior and unchecked excess” on Wall Street, Mike McMahon and Barney Frank sat in the audience discussing how to ease proposed rules for the $592 t
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News Link • Healthcare
Airports To Screen Passengers For H1N1 Symptoms
10-09-2009
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AP
The government warns that some passengers may be asked to pass through a screening device, have their temperatures taken, answer questions about their health, and even be quarantined if someone on the flight shows symptoms of H1N1.
"I'm all for it
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Camp Keating That Was Attacked is Abandoned
10-09-2009
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AP
The remote U.S. outpost near the Pakistan border that was nearly overrun by insurgents last weekend has been abandoned and destroyed by American troops, military officials announced today.
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Obama's Nobel Farce - Next stop, sainthood?
10-09-2009
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The Daily Beast
Is it possible that the Nobel Committee is 'bought and paid for' like so much our perceived world?? This comes as an aggravated insult upon our fragile existence to most from the far left to the far right and all points in between.
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News Link • Obama Administration
European Reactions to Obama’s Victory: Are you kidding me?
10-09-2009
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Hot Air
Well, well, from the looks of it, Obama and his friends at the Nobel Prize Committee have done what no one could do before them: unite the world.
In utter disbelief, of course, but hey, why obsess over details?
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News Link • Free Speech
Fee Speech
10-09-2009
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Strike The Root / Tzo
You can have a government, or you can have inalienable rights. Choose one, but then please, do not complain that you do not have the other.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
US, other nations stop counting pandemic flu cases
10-09-2009
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AP
U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. And they did it on purpose. Government doctors stopped counting swine flu cases in July, when they estimated more th
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News Link • Internet
UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to avoid extradition to US
10-09-2009
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AFP
McKinnon, who suffers from a form of autism, could spend life in prison if convicted by a US court of gaining access to 97 computers in 2001 and 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Gold and Economic Freedom: Did Greenspan Know What He Was Doing?
10-09-2009
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Zero Hedge
Questions have been raised by some commenters on ZH recently whether Greenspan did what he did on purpose. Reading the article below and considering the fact that he is a devotee of Ayn Rand (who by the way was at his side when he was sworn in as cha
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The snitch complains
10-09-2009
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Reuters
The key informant in the U.S. tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG faces prison next year, but his harsher-than-expected treatment by the U.S. Justice Department will undermine efforts to expose secretive offshore tax havens.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obey casts doubt on troop surge
10-09-2009
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Politico
The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee cast serious doubts on whether Democrats can back a major military expansion in Afghanistan, calling the country’s government “almost useless” and drawing a comparison with Vietnam.
After emerging
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law
10-09-2009
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NATURAL News
Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Ruling puts AZ closer to resuming executions
10-09-2009
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Arizona Republic
Jeffrey Landrigan was sentenced to death for killing a Phoenix man in 1989, but his execution was stayed in 2007, pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed condemned prisoners to question their state's method of execution by lethal injection
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News Link • Media: Internet
EDITORIAL: America's Internet police... The FTC gets ready to investigate bloggers
10-09-2009
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WashingtonTimes.com
You may have won $10 million dollars!!! Or not, but the same federal agency that can't stop those dishonest sweepstakes mailings wants the right to supervise everything bloggers, Facebookers, tweeters and practically anyone else writes on the Interne
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Bill Ayers: “I Wrote Dreams From My Father”
10-09-2009
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Backyard Conservative via CDO via Rense.com
"Then, unprompted he said"I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said"Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed eager..."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Close Up Look at Ugly NYC Commercial Real Estate
10-09-2009
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Daily Reckoning
On October 6th, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer aired an episode covering the commercial real estate meltdown currently taking place in New York City. They so reasonably refer to the $3.5 trillion in outstanding commercial real estate debt as potentially th
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What the Hell Is Bernanke Talking About?
10-09-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
The dollar staged a modest rebound on Friday after comments from Federal Chairman Bernanke led to speculation that the US might make an early exit from unconventional monetary policy.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Close Up Look at Ugly NYC Commercial Real Estate
10-09-2009
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Daily Reckoning
On October 6th, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer aired an episode covering the commercial real estate meltdown currently taking place in New York City. They so reasonably refer to the $3.5 trillion in outstanding commercial real estate debt as potentially th
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Don’t Trust the Dollar Strength
10-09-2009
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Daily Reckoning
Trichet also stated that he trusts his US counterparts (big mistake!) as to their statement on the strong-dollar policy. “When the Secretary of the Treasury and our friend Ben Bernanke say that a strong dollar is in the interests of the US economy ”
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News Link • Transportation
Trans Texas Corridor is Declared Dead -- Again
10-09-2009
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Star-telegram.com via rense.com
"What we basically are doing is we are terminating the process. Formally, absolutely, TTC-35 is dead. We are canceling the contract with Zachry."
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News Link • Media: Internet
FTC Responds to Blogger Fears: "That $11,000 Fine Is Not True"
10-09-2009
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FastCompany.com
As you've likely heard by now, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to reign in freebie-grabbing bloggers and graft-happy social media users masquerading as unbiased critics. The agency announced an update to the FTC Act of 1980, the requisite guid
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers-Abolish the Federal Reserve-Buy Silver and Gold will go to $2,000
10-09-2009
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You Tube
Goes into details of where he believes the dollar will be going..Its time to abolish the Fed and its time to buy Silver!!
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News Link • Climate Change
CIA spies global warming
10-09-2009
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Marketwatch
The Central Intelligence Agency is opening a Center on Climate Change. Its mission is to examine the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Happy Birthday, Jack! (Or: Why Your Fat Butt Needs Exercise!)
10-09-2009
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SFGate.com via Rense.com
Oakland's own Jack LaLanne, who founded what may have been the world's first fitness-focused gym in downtown Oakland in 1936, turned 95 recently.
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News Link • General Opinion
Hero or villain? Bill Clinton statue in Kosovo angers Serbs
10-09-2009
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Russia Today
A huge statue of Bill Clinton is being unveiled in the heart of Kosovo’s capital city. He’s celebrated there as the man who ordered NATO’s offensive against Serbia in 1999.For Kosovo Albanians, the former American president is a hero, who sanctioned
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News Link • Drug War
All L.A. County medical pot dispensaries face prosecution, district attorney says
10-09-2009
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LA Times
[LA DA] Cooley said today that all the dispensaries in the county are operating illegally, "going to be prosecuted." Kramer, operator of a dispensary, said, "If this is the way it goes, we'll go underground again. There will be a lot more crime."
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Free Speech and the Internet Under Assault from Multiple Sources
10-09-2009
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Mondo Frazier
It’s been a rough month for Freedom of Speech and the arena where it’s practiced most: the Internet. Free speech has come under assault from many directions within the last several months. The pace has ratcheted up in just the last two weeks alone. W
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Healthcare
An Introduction to Natural Health
10-09-09
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Energybalancing.com
Doctors of the future will give no medicine, but will share an interest in the care of the human frame, in correct nutrition, and the cause and prevention of dis-ease. "Doctor" is a Greek word meaning teacher. Therefore if we go to someone and they d
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Lea Anderson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pax Obama: War is Peace
10-09-2009
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http://nothirdsolution.com
The news lines are buzzing with reports that Obama was just handed the Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously. This is not a joke. The accomplishment worthy of Nobel, according to the Prize Committe, is “Diplomacy” lolwut?
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David Zemens
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News Link • Obama Administration
Video: Candidate Obama knocks Musharraf for … signing peace treaties with the Taliban
10-09-2009
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Hot Air
More flashback fun via Omri Ceren, remembering the days when the Taliban were an intractable jihadist opponent rather than the plucky band of Afghan patriots we’ve come to know and respect
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News Link • Government
U.S. Senate proposes 14-week unemployment extension
10-09-2009
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Digital Journal
The proposal includes a modification to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to allow families receiving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, to remain eligible while receiving an additional $25 per week in unemploymen
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Gerald Celente: The US Dollar is finished
10-09-2009
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Digital Journal
There are many proponents of financial experts and public officials who support ending the Federal Reserve System and one of these men is Celente himself who believes, "We can’t print money out of thin air, backed by nothing and producing practically
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News Link • Currencies
Peter Schiff: Gold to hit $5,000 per ounce
10-09-2009
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Digital Journal
Peter Schiff, President of Euro Pacific Capital and author of "Crash Proof 2.0," recently spoke with Fox Business News about this week's surge in gold prices and foreign mining stocks.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Central Banks in Asia Prop up Dollar
10-09-2009
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Digital Journal
The central banks of several Asian countries that are fearful of the impact a weak dollar will have on their exports, intervened in the markets on Thursday to buy the troubled U.S. currency.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA bombs the moon
10-09-2009
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AP
NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen.
Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:
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News Link • Activism
Should I say the Pledge of Allegiance anymore after learning it's history?
10-08-09
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www.LCLReport.com
We examine the history of the Pledge and wrestle with the dilemma of not saying it anymore. Also is it offensive to religious folk and Christians.
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Scandals and Extortion for 'Dignity'
10-09-2009
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Campaign for Liberty/Lew Rockwell
One failed resurrection of the old hockey stick prop, one "scientist" using thin data, and one entire research unit destroying what should have been secured are distasteful scandals that couldn't have erupted at a worst time for global warming alarmi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews
10-09-2009
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Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for offering the world hope and striving for nuclear disarmament in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Climate Change
Antarctic Ice Melt Record
10-09-2009
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arclein
Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention?
The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.
Such was the finding
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News Link • Corruption
Obama reiterates confidence in Geithner
after 80 conversations with bank executives emerged
10-09-2009
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Times Online
President Barack Obama has "tremendous confidence" in Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, even though he has spoken to executives from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and other banks more than 80 times in his first seven months in office, the Presi
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
10-09-2009
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Cryptogen
I thought that this was a hoax, and that, if I left it alone for an hour, all the media will have to admit that they got punked by 4chan or something similar… Nope. It’s real.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Western Conference in Phoenix
10-08-2009
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Students For Liberty
This year at the Arizona State Campus, ASU Students For Liberty will be hosting the West Coast Students For Liberty Conference uniting liberty-minded students and activists to push forward an agenda of real change in our society; liberty.
October
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News Link • Climate Change
Record Low Multiyear Ice
10-09-2009
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arclein
Only 19 percent of the ice cover was over 2 years old, the least in the satellite record and far below the 1981"2000 average of 52 percent. Earlier this summer, NASA researcher Ron Kwok and colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle publ
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed's Dilemma
10-08-2009
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Mises
The Federal Reserve System has become the very type of "bad bank" that they were themselves trying to rescue.
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News Link • Corruption
A ‘Murtha Method’ Encore
Lawmakers on House Defense Panel Still Enmeshed in Circles of Earmarks, Lo
10-08-2009
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Center for Public Integrity
A review of the 2010 defense appropriations process reveals that most members of a key House of Representatives panel continue to engage in controversial relationships involving ex-staffers-turned-lobbyists, contractors, campaign cash, and earmarks "
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News Link • Conspiracies
CORPORATE COMMUNISM (video)
10/07/09
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Youtube
October 07, 2009 MSNBC video
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