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Date Sent: 2009-10-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for October 11, 2009, Sunday edition |
Congress to Keep Torture Photos Hidden -- Gunmen hold hostages inside Pakistan army headquarters
'Benign currency neglect' could spell real danger for US economy -- Jim
Rogers: US Bond market next bursting bubble -- Beijing warns US
lawmakers to stay out of China's internal affairs -- Why Do Federal
Workers Make Twice As Much As Private-Sector Workers? -- Ethically
challenged lawmakers protect their own -- The Pork Report -- CONgress
Bought and Paid For -- Central Banking: A Blight on Humanity -- Peter
Schiff: Demise of the Dollar -- Children Banned From Maryland Public
Parks
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Congress Set to Act to Keep Abuse Photos Hidden
10-10-2009
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AP
Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.
Federal courts hav
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gunmen hold hostages in Pakistan army headquarters
10-10-2009
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AP
Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the nuclear-armed country's most powerful institution.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
10-11-2009
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CNN
If you hold a Discover credit card, you're in luck -- the company has decided to freeze interest-rate hikes until a new credit card consumer protection bill takes effect in February.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Clinton: We won't wait for Iran forever
10-11-2009
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Breitbart/Jerusalum/Post
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said the world "will not wait indefinitely" for Iran to live up to its international obligations regarding its nuclear program.
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News Link • Humor
I Love My Country (video)
10/09/09
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Youtube
Cowboy Clyde sings his hit song, "I Love My Country"!
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
Obamacare: Ending the Elderly (video)
9/14/09
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Youtube
American Life League exposes the euthanasia agenda of the sponsors of HR 3200. Henry Waxman and co-sponsors John Dingell, George Miller, Peter Stark, and Frank Pallone all voted against a federal ban on use of drugs for physician assisted suicide. No
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News Link • Corruption
WMD - Weapons of Mass Deception
10-10-2009
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Eyes Wide Open
How the U.S. had an obligation to steal Iraqi oil for the good of the people.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Redflex Photo Van Caught Violating State Law
10/10/2009
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CameraFRAUD
Tempe Police were called mid-Friday after CameraFRAUD activists observed a “photo radar” van breaking the law.
The van, owned and operated by beleaguered Redflex Group, often surveils drivers eastbound on Elliot Road near the Loop 101.
CameraFR
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers Sees U.S. Treasuries Bubble
10-10-2009
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Jim Rogers for LewRockwell.com
"The next bubble that I see developing is in the United States government bond market. It is inconceivable to me that anybody would lend money to the U.S. government for 30 years in U.S. dollars at 3 to 6 percent interest rate," he said.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hummer now Chinese
10-10-2009
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AP
General Motors announced Friday it had finalized plans to sell control of its iconic Hummer brand to a Chinese heavy equipment maker, pending approval from the U.S. and Chinese governments.
While Hummer will be controlled by two Chinese automaker
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News Link • Internet
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
10-10-2009
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TED
Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
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News Link • Energy
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
10-10-2009
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TED
At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life.
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News Link • Constitution
Active Duty Troops in Iraq Are Wearing Oath Keeper Tabs
10-10-2009
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Oathkeepers.org
...referring to the Oath to SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION - like Public Officeholders...
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
'Benign currency neglect' could spell real danger for US economy
10-10-2009
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Telegraph
What's happening to the dollar? That's the question dominating the world's financial markets. Last week the US currency fell, on a trade-weighted basis, to a fresh 14-month low. The dollar's decline is now gaining momentum.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Save the Greenback, Mr. President
10-10-2009
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CNBC
We know that gold is soaring.And we know the dollar is slumping. But, did you know that year-to-date, while the S&P 500 is up 18 percent"a great showing no doubt"gold is up even more.The precious metal is up 21 percent. In other words, measured in tr
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Death of Petro-Dollar, Told Ya So
10-10-2009
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Financial Sense
To say this is not orchestrated by China is professed ignorance. They warned the US not to monetize the federal debt. We did. They warned the US not to reappoint Bernanke as USFed Chairman. We did. Next is transformation with consequences. A new impo
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News Link • Energy
Oil at $200, Stocks Can Keep Rallying: Jim Rogers
10-10-2009
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CNBC
Investor Jim Rogers, a prominent commodities bull, said Thursday the U.S. government bond market will be the next bubble to burst due to unsustainable borrowing, and agricultural commodities and precious metals are among his favorite investment picks
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News Link • Currencies
Gold Will Keep Advancing After Reaching Record, Survey Shows
10-10-2009
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Bloomberg
old, trading at a record for a third consecutive day, will keep rising as a weaker dollar and concern that inflation will accelerate bolsters investor demand, a survey showed.
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News Link • Corruption
The Goldman Bonuses Are Coming! The Goldman Bonuses Are Coming!
10-10-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
What has been going down during this financial crisis is not capitalism. It is rule by the elites who use their power and influence within government to rub out competitors, and then use that same power to fill their coffers.
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News Link • China
Beijing warns U.S. lawmakers to stay out of China's internal affairs
10-10-2009
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RiaNovosti
China has cautioned U.S. legislators against intervening in China's domestic affairs, specifically in Tibet, Xinhua reported.
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday received a U.S. Congress award in honor of the late U.S. human rig
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News Link • Obama Administration
Government Violates The Citizens (Again)
10-10-2009
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The Market Ticker
The Dollar's depreciation is intentional. If economic activity picks up (it hasn't yet, despite what you're told) this will instantaneously echo into oil prices. How badly? The last time the dollar was here oil was at $150 and gas was aiming for $
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News Link • Constitution
Active Duty Troops in Iraq Are Wearing Oath Keeper Tabs
10-10-2009
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Oathkeepers.org
...referring to the Oath to SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION - like Public Officeholders...
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News Link • Immigration
Obama Shows No Intent To Prosecute Illegals
10-10-2009
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World Affairs Brief via Rense.com
Arizona's most famous Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is embarrassing everyone... who are claiming they don't have the resources to round up and deport illegal aliens.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
A dangerous secret to the Baucus health bill
10-10-2009
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CNN
Hidden in the Senate's health-care bill are huge incentives for corporate America to stop covering their workers. If that happens, the deficit could skyrocket.
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News Link • Teen View
Florida May Put Loud Stereo Tickets on Driving Record
10-10-09
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TheNewspaper.com
A member of the Florida House of Representatives wants to make driving with a loud stereo a crime on the same level as driving with an open container of alcohol. State Representative D. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) last month introduced House Bill 137 whic
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Why Do Federal Workers Make Twice As Much As Private-Sector Workers?
10-10-2009
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The Business Insider
The average federal worker makes $75,419 a year, while the average in the private sector is $39,751.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Some new Science
10-10-2009
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Popular Science
Heat Can Travel Only One Way Through New Japanese Diode - Robots Eat Bugs and Plants for Power - UK Citizens Catch Crimes on Closed-Circuit Cameras for Cash - LHC Test Could Lead to Hyperdrive Space Propulsion
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News Link • Obama Administration
War and Peace Prizes by Howard Zinn
10-10-2009
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commondreams.org
I was dismayed when I heard Barack Obama was given the Nobel peace prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on two wars would be given a peace prize. Until I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Kissinger had
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Continental Congress 2009 - The Next Step For A Free People - VOTE TODAY UNTIL 4 PM
10-08-2009
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CC2009 and givemeliberty.org
Our Nation Is Out of Control Constitutionally, Economically & Ethically - WHAT NEXT?
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News Link • God, Government and other assorted myths....
After Gods, Heroes and Gold Comes the Age of Lint
10-10-2009
All civilizations go through three stages, Vico said " divine, heroic, and human. The divine period is ruled by the gods. The heroic period is adorned with victories and statues. Then, comes the human era.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Sooner or Later the Fed Music Stops
10-10-2009
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dailyreckoning.com
10/09/09 Stockholm, Sweden " Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talked about the tremendous size of the central bank’s $2.1 trillion balance sheet at a recent conference. He openly recognized that the current measures he’s taken to support the eco
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A Deflation Story
10-10-2009
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dailyreckoning.com
Meanwhile, Americans’ per capita wealth has fallen from $172,000 in September from $212,000 two years earlier. And the UN reports that the quality of life in America has gone down too…from #5 on its list in 2000, it fell to #13 in 2007. No doubt it i
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Pork Report
10-10-2009
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Big Government
Senator Byrd earmarks $5 million in Defense funds for a company that no longer exists
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News Link • Corruption
EDITORIAL: It takes one to know one
Ethically challenged lawmakers protect their own
10-10-2009
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Washington Times
If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pledge to "drain the [congressional] swamp" of corruption actually had teeth, she'd have to boot more than just embattled Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Bought and Paid For
10-10-2009
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Washington's Blog
Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking.
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News Link • World News
CELL PHONE VIDEO CAPTURES RATS INSIDE NYC PIZZA TRUCK
10-10-2009
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Breitbart
Ewww!!!!
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News Link • World News
The Journalist Behind the Spike Up in Gold
10-10-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Politico.com has put out a bit of background information on Robert Fisk, the reporter who sent gold soaring and the dollar crashing as a result of his column reporting secret meetings between the Chinese, Arabs and Russians. They are supposedly meeti
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News Link • Police State
A Right Not Exercised is a Right Lost
10-10-2009
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http://nothirdsolution.com
Justin Holmes gets “pulled over” for the non-crime of rollerblading, and rightly refuses to identify himself to law enforcement. When asked why he’s being detained, the officer cites some local ordinance that prohibits rollerblading, which ordinance
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News Link • Precious Metals
Central Banking: A Blight on Humanity
10-09-2009
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Gold Seek
Impeccably reliable sources have informed me that as recently as Sept. 30, 2009 - the last possible day of trade in the Sept. 09 futures - a number of well-healed market participants "bought" substantial tonnage worth of gold futures on the London Bu
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News Link • Obama Administration
More Stonewalling from the Most Transparent Administration in History
10-10-2009
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National Review
So much for the "unprecedented level of openness in Government" promised by our Nobel Laureate in Chief. While Attorney General Eric Holder continues stonewalling the Civil Rights Commission on the Justice Department's stunning dismissal of the civil
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News Link • Police State
School Children Banned From Maryland Public Parks
10-09-2009
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WJLA News
The tyrants of Kensington just passed a new rule that bans kids over five years old from playgrounds during the daytime.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obamacomedy
10-10-2009
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Townhall
The president’s a real comedian. I’m not referring to the performance on Letterman as much as I am at the G20 Summit, where, humorously, he spoke of his determination to prevent and prohibit the “reckless risk-taking” that he asserts brought about th
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News Link • Humor
Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and...
10-10-2009
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Reason
If the world was stunned to learn that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, it will be even more amazed by all the awards that are still coming his way.
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News Link • Future Predictions
2012 forecast : food riots, ghost malls, mob rule,
10-09-2009
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WND
A trends forecaster says the current economic "rebound" from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing."And
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Peter Schiff Vlog-Demise of the Dollar
10-10-2009
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You Tube
Imagine if the U.S. had raised interest rates the world has realized they can buy a cheap dollar does the U.S. Government prop up the stock market, prop up the housing bubble yet destroy the dollar?
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News Link • Constitution
What America was meant to be. (video)
10/07/09
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Vigilant Patriots
What America was meant to be. video
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama's [Redacted] transparency
10-09-2009
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The Examiner
Everything you should know about government transparency and accountability under President Obama and the Democratic Congress was made crystal clear by two events this week. I
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Pennsylvania Cops Assault Me and Terrorize My Toddler Son Right Outside Of Our Home
10-09-2009
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GeorgeDonnelly.com
..turns out an older lady walking an angry little dog called the cops on me. "Man with a gun in a blue shirt, khaki pants and a little boy". Textbook aggression.
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News Link • Currencies
Goldman Does Gold
10-09-2009
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Goldman Sachs 666
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are leaping head-first into gold futures, do you wonder why? It should be fairly clear. If you need an explanation, feel free to get in touch. I invite any of the Evil Twin rats to comment... anonymously, of course. Come o
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News Link • World News
Chávez to Iran: How About Some Uranium?
10-09-2009
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Time
When Venezuela's Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo Chávez impishly asked, "So how's the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb." Chávez was joking, but few were laughing outside Caraca
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