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Date Sent: 2009-10-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 23, 2009 AM edition |
Organized crime's new target: Medicare and Medicaid
Two Democrats Join GOP Call for Countrywide Probe -- Henry Paulson, the
Bobolink Foundation, and Goldman Sachs -- Wall Street Using "Structured
Notes" To Defraud Unwitting Investors Around The World -- Why Is Unemployment Rising Faster In the U.S. Than Other Countries? -- Bong water is an illegal drug, Minn. Supreme Court rules --
Freedom Watch 47 w/ Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Andy Levy, Cody Willard,
Jesse Kelly -- McCain introduces bill to block internet neutrality -- Man arrested for making coffee in own home while naked
-- Goldman Sachs and "War Profiteering" -- Commodities rally broadly as
dollar weakens -- FREE cellphones with 70 FREE monthly minutes to
welfare recipients! -- The U.S. Postal Service: Undercutting the U.S.
Dollar Since 2003
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News Link • Corruption
Organized crime's new target: Medicare and Medicaid
10-22-2009
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CNN
rganized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid "They're hitting us and hitting us hard," said Timothy Menke, head of investigations for the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human
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News Link • Humor
Guy Catches Laptop With His Butt
10-22-2009
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Youtube (h/t The Agitator)
I guess the title says it all in this new Olympic event.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Senate Moving to Expand $8000 First-Time Homebuyer Credit to All Homebuyers
10-22-2009
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American Banking News
A group of Senators, including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, are moving to extend the $8,000 first-time homebuyers tax credit and extend it to all homebuyers.
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) who had previously owned a real estate compan
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News Link • Corruption
Two Democrats Join GOP Call for Countrywide Probe
10-22-2009
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Roll Call
Two Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are joining with panel Republicans in formally calling for Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) to launch an investigation of the Countrywide VIP loan scandal.
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News Link • Corruption
Henry Paulson, the Bobolink Foundation, and Goldman Sachs
10-22-2009
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Crime & Federalism
Before Henry Paulson become Secretary of the Treasury, he was required by law to sell all of his shares in Goldman Sachs. He was allowed to sell all of his shares of Goldman Sachs stock tax-free. Thus, by becoming Secretary of the Treasure, he was
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why the White House Worries About Fox News
10-22-2009
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Campaign for Liberty
In a small bit of Washington irony, a government panel convened this week under the guise of ensuring 'expressive freedom' on the Internet, while at the same time the Obama Administration put Fox News on notice that ideological rectitude would be a p
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News Link • Obama Administration
LOTT'S NUMBERS: Why Is Unemployment Rising Faster In the U.S. Than Other Countries?
10-22-2009
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Fox
The Obama administration claims that it was their passage of massive government spending that saved the United States from another Great Depression. Last week, Larry Summers, Obama's top economic adviser, claimed that because of the stimulus:
"W
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News Link • Constitution
Obama vs. Fox
White House shows immaturity, thin skin
10-22-2009
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San Diego UnionTribune
Nor does it have the right to try to isolate Fox News by urging other networks to shun their colleagues because, as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel put it, Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in fol
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Some credit card companies rush to act before new law
10-22-2009
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CNBC
-- 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 • Domestic Policy
Rewarding Failure
10-22-2009
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Zero Hedge
Every day we hear about proposed caps on CEO pay, and new regulations to make sure companies are not rewarded for failure. Nowhere is failure being more greatly rewarded than in the United States bankruptcy system.
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News Link • Drug War
Bong water is an illegal drug, Minn. Supreme Court rules
10-22-2009
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City Pages via digg
Time to dump your bong water in case the feds show up at your door. They might think you actually plan to drink it later
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
10/21/2009 Freedom Watch 47 w/ Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Andy Levy, Cody Willard, Jesse Kelly
10-22-2009
10/21/2009 Freedom Watch 47 w/ Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Andy Levy, Cody Willard, Jesse Kelly
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News Link • Internet
McCain introduces bill to block internet neutrality
10-22-2009
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Raw Story
In his announcement today, McCain appeared to agree with the notion that Net neutrality represents regulation and control, rather than a lack thereof. It "will keep the Internet free from government control and regulation," McCain said.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Liberty Threatened: Surveillance-Peddlers Push Bogus Polls
10/22/2009
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CameraFRAUD
Companies on the forefront of invasive and liberty-threatening surveillance systems are on the attack, paying big bucks for studies to “prove” that "4 out of 5 adults feel... the government should be able to use ANY AVAILABLE MEANS to "protect" citiz
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News Link • Police State
Man arrested for making coffee in own home while naked
10-22-2009
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Telegraph
An American man who made coffee in his own home while nude is facing charges of indecent exposure.Eric Williamson, from Springfield, Virginia, was brewing coffee in his kitchen when a woman and a seven-year-old boy walked past the window and saw him.
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
Give a Little, Take a Little
10-22-2009
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Pro Publica
In hopes of creating more jobs, House Democrats met with economists on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reports, to talk about measures that could spur job growth. (They’re touchy about calling it a second stimulus.)
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News Link • Currencies
Commodities rally broadly as dollar weakens " more to come
10-22-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
Commodities rose broadly Wednesday as the dollar took another tumble, sending prices for gold, oil and soybeans soaring. The ICE Futures U.S. dollar index, a widely used measure of the dollar’s value against other currencies, fell 0.5 percent in afte
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs and “War Profiteering”
10-22-2009
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The Globalist
The prospect of Goldman Sachs awarding record bonuses in the wake of the financial collapse has the potential to incite a broad-based populist backlash, argues Martin Sieff. He explores how Wall Street has roused the public's ire in much the same way
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Stewart Rhodes On MSNBC - Hardball with Chris Matthews
10-22-2009
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YouTube
Part 1 & 2 - Once it became clear that Matthews was acting as Potoks ally rather than as a journalist, Stewart couldnt resist sticking Matthews with a solid jab, saying we swear an oath to the Constitution, not to a man, even if he makes a thrill run
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Herding the sheep
10-22-2009
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Washington's Blog
Financial insider and commentator Yves Smith wrote an essay last week entitled "MSM Reporting as Propaganda" arguing that the government has been using propaganda to make people think that things are getting better, no one is angry, and - therefore -
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
The U.S. Postal Service: Undercutting the U.S. Dollar Since 2003
10-22-2009
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Faux Capitalism
This isn’t a recent phenomenon. The use of SDRs by U.S. federal government institutions goes further back than 2009
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama giving away FREE cellphones with 70 FREE monthly minutes to welfare recipients!
10-22-2009
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Safe Link/E-Mail
I was forwarded the following email, I didn't believe it...I went to the website, still thought it HAD to be an elaborate hoax set up to discredit the obama administration, then I began to call the phone numbers and it is real alright!
If only thi
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Some More Perspectives On The Global Bailout
10-22-2009
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Zero Hedge
Recently we presented our extended thoughts on how it was that the Fed first encouraged massive dollar-denominated, underfunding global positions, and subsequently, when funding became scarce, provided unprecedented capital bailouts to foreign Centra
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