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Date Sent: 2009-10-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for October 24, 2009 Saturday edition |
NATO says "no" on more troops until Obama's Afghan strategy ready -- US bank failures top 100
House health care bill exceeds $1 trillion again -- Health reform moves to close U.S. Medicare drug gap
-- US Drones Protecting Ships From Somali Pirates -- Tehran delays
decision on nuclear deal -- McCain Biggest Beneficiary of Telco/ISP
Lobby Money -- Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill -- John McCain's Internet Freedom Act is Eminently Warranted -- More FDIC Malfeasance: 43% Loss -- Labor Unions to Participate in Bank Protests -- "It Has Got All the Hallmarks of a Financial Collapse about to Happen in America" -- Nurses Got Sick From the Swine Flu Vaccine in Sweden --
George Schultze: Another 100-150 Bank Failures Next Year -- Whitney
Tilson: Yes, Housing Recovery Is Still "Mother Of All Head-Fakes"
AZ: Come Meet the Arizona Delegation to the Continental Congress 2009 for Lunch today
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO says "no" on more troops until Obama's Afghan strategy ready
10-23-2009
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McClatchy News
Top NATO officials suggested they support Afghanistan commander Gen. McChrystal's call for a bigger counterinsurgency strategy in that war, but said they may send more troops only after they know how the administration intends to proceed there.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US bank failures top 100, only part of industry woes
10-23-2009
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AP
The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper than the number suggests.
Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The Price of Freedom? (by Christine Smith)
10-23-2009
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
“Freedom is not free” is a common phrase found in songs, in speeches, and on ribbons, and it’s the inscription inlaid where the walls of the Korean War Veterans Memorial join...
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News Link • Militia
Revolution from the Right?
10/24/2009
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Stuart Archer Cohen
There's a lot of loose talk going around these days about Revolution. So what are the chances?
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Stuart Archer Cohen
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News Link • Healthcare
House health care bill exceeds $1 trillion
10-23-2009
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AP
Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said as they struggled to finish work on the mea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Health reform moves to close U.S. Medicare drug gap
10-23-2009
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Reuters
Democratic leaders moved on Friday to build support among the elderly for a massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, saying the measure would immediately start closing a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage.
The coverage gap, the so-c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
US Drones Protecting Ships From Somali Pirates
10-23-2009
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AP
For the first time, sophisticated U.S. military surveillance drones capable of carrying missiles have begun patrolling waters off Somalia in hopes of stemming rising piracy.
Three ships have been seized in a week off Africa's lawless eastern coast
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Tehran delays decision on nuclear deal
10-23-2009
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Washington Post
Iran on Friday deferred a decision on accepting an international offer to supply fuel to a nuclear research reactor, saying an answer would come next week on a deal that would greatly reduce its stockpile of low-enriched uranium.
The United States
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Surprise: McCain Biggest Beneficiary of Telco/ISP Lobby Money
10-23-2009
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AP
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is the top recipient of campaign contributions from large Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast over the past two years, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
10-23-2009
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AP
Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.
State and local authorities set up ro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Robotic Craft Mimics Falling Maple Seeds
10-23-2009
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LiveScience
Aerospace engineers have designed a hovering craft that mimics the spiraling pattern made by maple tree seeds. Called RoboSeed NAV (nano air vehicle), the craft has a maximum dimension of less than 4 inches, making it the world's smallest controllabl
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
John McCain's Internet Freedom Act is Eminently Warranted
10-23-1009
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Paul Levinson
net neutrality is a laudable goal - but not at the expense of our First Amendment, and empowering the FCC in its unconstitutional regulation of our media
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Death
Taser tells police to avoid shooting at chest
10-23-2009
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Associated Press
PHOENIX " Stun-gun maker Taser International has started telling police agencies to avoid firing the devices at suspects' chests, explaining that there's an "extremely low" risk of ill effects on the heart and that doing so will make defending lawsui
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Corruption
More FDIC Malfeasance: 43% Loss
10-23-2009
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The Market Ticker
As of September 30, 2009, Partners Bank had total assets of $65.5 million.
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The FDIC estimates that the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $28.6 million.
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News Link • New World Order
Serious Plotting in Armonk, NY
10-23-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Serious plotting gets located this weekend in Armonk, NY
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News Link • Obama Administration
Labor Unions to Participate in Bank Protests
10-23-2009
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Washington's Blog
I don't know how many rank and file members of the giant labor unions will show up, but the
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News Link • Obama Administration
”It Has Got All the Hallmarks of a Financial Collapse about to Happen in America ...The US Dollar Is
10-23-2009
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Washington's Blog
Guess who said the following:
Far from turning around the [George] Bush legacy of deficits and debt, [US president Barack] Obama has made it worse. It has got all the hallmarks of a financial collapse about to happen in America...
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News Link • Propaganda
Stress Test Shenanigans: Round 2
10-23-2009
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Washington's Blog
The Federal Reserve will expand its so-called stress tests of the banking system to ensure they have enough capital during difficult periods, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Stock Market Down for the Week; Bonds Down for Third Week in a Row
10-23-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
If Bennie doesn't fly his money loaded jets, the stock market will eventually crack. A down close on a Friday is not a good sign.
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News Link • Eugenics
Nurses Got Sick From the Swine Flu Vaccine in Sweden • UPDATE " 190 Adverse Reactions 1 Suspected De
10-23-2009
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Farm Wars
This is only the beginning folks. As more and more sheeple line up for the H1N1 flu vaccine, more people will be getting sick.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Government
Goldman Sachs Still Paid for Swaps on Redeemed Bonds
10-23-2009
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Bloomberg
New Jersey taxpayers are sending almost $1 million a month to a partnership run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for protection against rising interest costs on bonds that the state redeemed more than a year ago
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News Link • Constitution
When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance, Pe
10-23-2009
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CNS News
When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance--a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill--Pelosi d
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News Link • Iran
Armageddon Time
10-23-2009
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Forbes
When it comes to Iran, the U.S. may be facing a cataclysm.
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News Link • New World Order
Vatican thumbs up for Karl Marx after Galileo, Darwin and Oscar Wilde
10-23-2009
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Times Online
Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church.
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News Link • Currencies
George Schultze: Another 100-150 Bank Failures Next Year, Gold To $2,000 Oz.
10-23-2009
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The Business Insider
Think commodities and emerging markets, and don't expect even high single digit portfolio returns.
That was the grim message today at the Forum for Institutional Investors conference, where a panel of private equity managers on macro economics.
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News Link • General Opinion
Insane: Woman Flashes Around Insurance Claim Money, Gets Robbed
10-23-2009
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The Business Insider
Why anyone in their right mind would cash an insurance claim check and then go to a bar to flaunt said money is beyond me. But one Springfield, Massachusetts woman is probably wishing she had gone to the bank on the way to the bar:
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Roubini: A Big Crash Is Coming, But I Don't Believe In Gold
10-23-2009
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The Business Insider
Nouriel Roubini believes that a "wall of liquidity" is chasing all kinds of assets, yet once the economy disappoints expectations, it will all come crashing down.
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News Link • Propaganda
Whitney Tilson: Yes, Housing Recovery Is Still "Mother Of All Head-Fakes"
10-23-2009
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The Business Insider
And the happy spin the NAR put on this morning's housing numbers was a joke.
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