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Date Sent: 2009-10-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 PM edition |
Higher jobless rates: The new normal -- 1 in 6 Americans now living in poverty
They're Destroying the Dollar! - by Charles Goyette -- Top Obama Officials Knew about Bank of America Deal -- Ron Paul Gets Heated Over The Afghanistan War Policy -- Ron Paul on Bailouts-Wall St Fraud (CNN) -- The “Dis-Savings” Glut - by Bill Bonner --
UPDATE ON WASHINGTON REDSKINS CHEERLEADER CRIPPLED FOR LIFE AFTER BEING
VACCINATED -- Taxpayer Subsidized High-Fructose Corn Syrup Produces
Toxic Chemical When Heated -- Fiat Money: The Fuel of Government -- White House Pressures U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Reverse Position on Energy Bill -- Karzai agrees to Afghan election runoff -- The Very Busy Politicians in Washington DC - by Ron Paul
AZ: Thursday Breakfast -- AZ Rep. Cecil Ash on Faith and Rationalism
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Higher jobless rates: The new normal
10-20-2009
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AP
Even with an economic revival, many US jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years. That could add up to a "new normal" of higher joblessness and lower standards of living for many Americans,
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
10-20-2009
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AP
The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Liberty on the Rocks! meets tomorrow night
10-20-2009
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Daniel Heller
A splendid mix of grass roots activism, libations, and good conversation. We are a group of citizens who endeavor to limit the reach of government into our personal lives, to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Join us for a meeting o
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Daniel Heller
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News Link • Corruption
Rock Art Brewing Company Vs. Corporate America: call for boycott of Monster Energy Drinks
10-20-2009
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Rock Art Brewing Company
Please note that I, the reporter of this story, and not Rock Art Brewing Company, am calling for a boycott. This is big corporations leaning on sovereign individuals not because they should, not because they have to but because they can.
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Found Zero
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Guess What: The Next Housing Bubble Is Already Underway
10-20-2009
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The Business Insider
It's back!
You see, we've always just assumed that after experiencing an epic hangover following the housing party, there'd be no way we'd rush headlong into the same bubble right away.But we were wrong -- the housing bubble is back. Sure, prices ar
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News Link • Surveillance
OnStar Halts California High-Speed Pursuit
10-20-2009
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Officer.com
[It's started!] When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase.
The 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe roared away wi
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
They're Destroying the Dollar!
10-20-2009
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Charles Goyette from TheStreet.com
If a cheap dollar doesn't produce prosperity, could the gnomes in the Treasury and at the Federal Reserve have other reasons to opt for the devaluation of the dollar? They go about their subterranean toil, undermining the dollar seemingly heedless of
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Charles Goyette
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals
10-20-2009
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Chicago Sun Times
Have you heard the news? President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration.
You say that's hardly news? But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Top Obama Officials Knew about Bank of America Deal
10-20-2009
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ProPublica/Charlotte Observer
They also show that incoming Obama officials, including now Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House economic adviser Larry Summers, were apprised of the discussions a month before they took office.
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News Link • Currencies
Sitting on a goldmine
10-20-2009
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Russia Today
Gold prices are hitting record highs and there's no shortage of businesses ready to trade bling for bucks, so if you need to raise some extra cash, it might be high time to raid your jewelry box.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ron Paul Gets Heated Over The Afghanistan War Policy
10-20-2009
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You Tube
Ron Paul gives opening statement and then questions the panel during House Foreign Affairs Committee on the War in Afghanistan on October 15th, 2009
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
PJTV: Why Words Wont Defeat Thug Culture
10-20-2009
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You Tube
The brutal beating of Chicago teen Derrion Albert has ignited the usual platitudes on race, but Joe Hicks tells us why words wont help solve the problem of thug violence in the latest Hicks File. Warning: Graphic
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News Link • Obama Administration
7 Lies in 2 Minutes
10-20-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
In this 1:46 video, we point out 7 promises that then candidate Obama has already broken. We hope that all the people of the ObamaNation are happy with their president.
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
The “Dis-Savings” Glut
Bill Bonner
Look at the price of oil " over $79. And the price of gold " over $1050. Compared to each other " oil and gold " prices are stable. But against the dollar both are rising. In other words, people with dollars are trading them for oil and gold.
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News Link • Corruption
Ron Paul on CNN-Bailouts-Wall St Fraud 10-20-09
10-20-2009
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You Tube
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News Link • Obama Administration
Budget Deficits for Dummies: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love $1.4 trillion
10-20-2009
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You Tube/Reason
The U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2009, which ended in September, was a record-shattering $1.4 trillion, equal to about 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product. $1.4 trillion dollars is a lot of money and it's hard to get your mind around that fig
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
UPDATE ON WASHINGTON REDSKINS CHEERLEADER CRIPPLED FOR LIFE AFTER BEING VACCINATED
10-20-2009
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You Tube
This is an update on Desiree Jennings. This poor woman was crippled with a neurological disorder after taking a vaccine, which is poisonous and contains mercury, squalene and other chemical toxins ...
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News Link • Food
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Produces Toxic Chemical “HMF” When Heated
10-20-2009
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Mike Adams
HFCS is not only in many products on the store shelves, but is being fed to bees. This might be a contributing factor to the death of honeybees. How good can it be for humans?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Fiat Money: The Fuel of Government
10-20-2009
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National Policy Institute HT Liberty Pulse
The US Federal Reserve was founded in 1913 and allowed America to enter World War I four years later. It has been estimated that only 21 percent of the war effort was funded through taxation. 56 percent of the spending came from Fed-backed borrowing
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
How Not to Engage in Civil Discourse by MSNBC
10-20-2009
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Americans for Prosperity HT Liberty Pulse
Ever noticed how the Left focuses on attacking us personally rather than engaging in honest debate on the issues?
Just last week I appeared on two very different shows: Sean Hannity's Great American Panel and Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show. Seeing h
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Pressures U.S. Chamber to Reverse Position on Energy Bill
10-20-2009
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Americans for Tax Reform
White House Pressures U.S. Chamber to Reverse Position on Energy Bill
Obama using Chicago-style tactics to pressure business organization
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Karzai agrees to Afghan election runoff
10-20-2009
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Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai must face an election run-off against his main rival on November 7, to resolve a disputed first round that plunged the country into months of political uncertainty. After hours of closed-door meetings with western diplom
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed should be more transparent
10-20-2009
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Ron Paul/Politico HT Liberty Pulse
The continuing financial crisis has made clear to many people the deep problems that exist within our financial system. One of the key decisions to be made in any of the reform proposals floating around deals with the Federal Reserve System and its p
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News Link • Activism
Active Duty Troops In Iraq Are Wearing Oath Keeper Tabs " Hooah!
10-20-2009
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Buchanan HT Liberty Pulse
I just thought the WRSA [Western Rifle Shooters Association] and the Sipsey Street boys might like to see what we are wearing while over here in Iraq. We . . . know what the deal is, and when the time comes (which it will), we know where we stand an
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
To Russia with love
The lost film that shows how Hollywood " and Washington " embraced the Soviets
10-19-2009
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NY Post
On Christmas Eve, 1942, screenwriter Howard Koch was packing for a trip to New York when he received an urgent summons to meet with his bosses, Warner Bros. founders Harry and Jack Warner.
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