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Date Sent: 2009-10-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 26, 2009 AM edition |
Asian leaders seek to reduce Western trade ties -- Baghdad bombs kill 147
Human Rights Abuses of GI Resisters -- Greyhound bus passengers get screened, pat down in special TSA operation -- "Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H Obama" (The Full HQ Movie) -- CIA Plant at House Kennedy Assassination Investigation -- Afghans torch Obama effigy -- George Soros: We Need A New Financial World Order -- Britons Weary of Surveillance -- Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few -- Cell phone video shows police beating of student -- A Quick Guide from NYC on How to Torture Landlords -- Freddie Mac, Given Oversight of Mortgage Mod Program -- Is Russia Really Selling Gold? -- Freedom Watch: Tom Woods, Jim Bovard, and David Boaz -- Ron Paul on the Jason Lewis Show -- How They Are Turning Off the Lights in America - by Lew Rockwell -- The Best Plan: No Plan - by Larken Rose
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News Link • Free Trade
Asian leaders seek to reduce Western trade ties
10-25-2009
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Reuters
Asia-Pacific leaders called for regional-wide free trade and other measures to reduce dependence on the United States and big Western markets as Asia leads the way out of the global economic downturn.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama urged A
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Baghdad bombs kill 132, government slams neighbors
10-25-2009
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Reuters
2 suicide bombs tore through Baghdad, killing 132 people, wounding more than 500 and leaving mangled bodies and cars on the streets in one of Iraq's deadliest days this year. The two blasts shredded buildings and smoke billowed from the area near the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Trying to Rein In ‘Too Big to Fail’ Institutions
10-25-2009
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NY Times
Congress and the Obama administration are about to take up one of the most fundamental issues stemming from the near collapse of the financial system last year " how to deal with institutions that are so big that the government has no choice but to r
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Yankees 5, Angels 2: Yankees Win A.L.C.S., 4-2
10-25-2009
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NY Times
For the 40th time, the Yankees won the American League pennant, which they clinched with a 5-2 victory over the Angels in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night.
On Wednesday night the Yankees will play the Philadelphia
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News Link • Surveillance
Air Force Bugbots
Micro Air Vehicle (MAVs) buglike drones
10-25-2009
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Design World HT Chris Martenson
Can you say “Big Brother is watching”? The Air Force is developing technologies that will give our military a tremendous advantage. But can this technology be used abused? Check out this video presentation of the MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) and decide fo
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News Link • Police State
Greyhound bus passengers get screened, pat down in special TSA operation
10-25-2009
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Orlando Sentinal
Bryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando.
But Williams and 689 other passengers went through tougher-than-normal security procedur
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News Link • Habeas Corpus
Attorney Reports Human Rights Abuses of GI Resisters
10-25-2009
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by Dahr Jamail
Attorneys and veteran’s groups are alarmed by recent reports that two US Army soldiers imprisoned at the Fort Lewis Regional Correctional Facility (RCF) have been subjected to human rights abuses and violations of their constitutional rights.
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News Link • History
CIA Plant at House Kennedy Assassination Investigation
10-25-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Last Friday, October 16, the New York Times, for the first time, shined a light onto the JFK-CIA-Joannides scandal with a story entitled “C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery.” The story soon began appearing in other mainstream newspapers and o
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fall Of The Republic - The Presidency Of Barack H Obama - The Full Movie HQ
10-25-2009
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You Tube
Here it is in full!
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
FOX Hunt
10-25-2009
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Taki HT Liberty Pulse
The Obama administration is foolish to believe that only FOX News is guilty of what White House communications director Anita Dunn calls "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
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News Link • Climate Change
Science Museum's climate change poll backfires & Obama may attend it after all
10-25-2009
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Telegraph
The museum’s Prove It! website, which is designed to influence politicians at the Copenhagen climate summit in December, allows members of the public to pledge their support, or lack of it, to the environmentalist cause.
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News Link • Free Speech
The ACLU and its herd mentality
10-25-2009
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The Examiner HT Liberty Pulse
The American Civil Liberties Union has its share of critics, but one wouldn’t assume those critics would come from within the organization. Unfortunately for the ACLU, Wendy Kaminer’s insider account details the organization’s internal suppression of
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
REAL ZOMBIE DOGS!!!! 1940's russian experiment. part 1
10-25-2009
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You Tube
You Tube description - severed head of a dog brought back to life in the early 1940's by the Soviet Union.
by the way the dogs in these vids are heavily sedated so they do not feel pain. including the severed dog head.
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News Link • Humor
Two Trillion Tons (Bucks)
10-25-2009
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You Tube
We owe our soul to the federal reserve (and the red chinese)
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News Link • New World Order
Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker admits the Federal Reserve is private, and he attended Bilderberg G
10-25-2009
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Exposing Faux Capitalism
On October 15, 2009, We Are Change Boston asked former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Paul Volcker, about the Bilderberg Group.
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News Link • New World Order
George Soros: We Need A New Financial World Order.
10-25-2009
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StoryBaloon
In a recent interview with Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times, George Soros talks about his belief that the world needs a “financial new world order.” He goes into detail about China’s role in the new financial world order and says the dollar w
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought
10/25/09
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The Rag Blog
Computer software "disappeared" 16,000 votes from Al Gore's column at a critical moment on election night, allowing George W. Bush’s first cousin John Ellis, a Fox News analyst, to proclaim him the winner. The election was officially decided by less
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • New World Order
The Global Debt Crisis is Destroying the Economic Structure
10-25-2009
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MarketOracle
It was never more evident than when administrations changed last January. Team A replaced Team B, all of whom just happen to be members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. There is no debate. There
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News Link • Healthcare
Who might, or might not, be covered under the healthcare bills
10-25-2009
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LA Times
Low-income people could get federal assistance, but even a public option may leave out some individuals.I keep hearing that none of the Democratic healthcare bills would cover everyone. Who won't be covered?
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News Link • Police State
Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases
10-25-2009
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NY Times
It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government has extraordinary powers to intrude into citizens’ liv
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News Link • Humor
Will Dan Rather Soon Have a New Gig?
10-25-2009
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You Tube/Big Hollywood
Topics in today's show:
-- Democratic districts are now the wealthiest
-- Obama on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
-- California's in the red again
-- Wait. Global warming, or impending ice age?
-- TV shows shouting Obama's call to volunteer
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few
10-25-2009
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Reuters
9-year-old Corey Haas can ride his bike alone now, thanks to an experimental gene therapy that has boosted his fading vision with a single treatment. The gene therapy helped improve worsening eyesight caused by a rare inherited disease called Leber c
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Hatch: 'I hope' Obama not delaying troop decision to help Corzine and Deeds
10-25-2009
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Politico
Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch brought up a claim he said "some people" have made that President Barack Obama is waiting until after this year's gubernatorial election in New Jersey and Virginia before making a decision on sending more troops to Af
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News Link • Government
A Quick Guide from NYC on How to Torture Landlords
10-25-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
New York state's highest court has just bitch slapped a bunch of landlords who think they can provide apartments for the people of NYC at a rate that reflects the market rate.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Real Reason That - For the First Time Ever - More Women are Working Than Men
10-25-2009
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Washington's Blog
For the first time ever, at least half of all American workers are women. In addition, mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of families.
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News Link • Government
Freddie Mac, Given Oversight of Mortgage Mod Program, Falls Down on Job
10-25-2009
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Pro Publica
Since its March launch, the government’s $50 billion program to prevent foreclosures has been marked by confusion, delays and doubts. A little-noticed conclusion in a government report released on Wednesday reveals that the program’s auditor is no di
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cell phone video shows police beating of student
10-25-2009
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San Jose Mercury News (video)
A cell phone video shows San Jose police officers repeatedly using batons and a Taser gun on an unarmed San Jose State student, including at least one baton strike that appears to come after the man is handcuffed, as they took him into custody inside
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News Link • Obama Administration
4th Grader asks Obama, "Why do people hate you?"
10/15/2009
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YouTube
He also asks, "Why are people supposed to love you?"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Failure Century Mark Overshadowed By Six More
10-25-2009
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Pro Publica
The Office of Thrift Supervision was the first regulator to break the news of the 100th bank failure for the year. Yesterday, shortly after 5:00 p.m. EST, the OTS sent out an email announcing the closure of Florida’s
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News Link • Currencies
Is Russia Really Selling Gold?
10-25-2009
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The Golden Truth
If they thought the sale of 45 tons of gold would hurt the price of gold, they would have kept the sale quiet. If the sale happens, it will now be bid-in-comp and will likely be executed substantially above spot.
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs Bonus Rage "Will Kill Our Golden Goose"?
10-25-2009
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Goldman Sachs 666
What is it about the name Goldman Sachs that makes otherwise sensible people foam at the mouth? . Alistair Darling declared that this was a grievous mistake and that no bank “would be standing here today if the taxpayer had not put their hand into th
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News Link • New World Order
Disney’s Neuroscience/Advertising Lab
10-25-2009
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Cryptogen
A technician in a black lab coat gazed at the short, middle-aged man seated inside the Walt Disney Company’s secretive new research facility here last week, his face shrouded with eye-tracking goggles. Read ESPN.com on that BlackBerry, she told him s
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News Link • Obama Administration
The State of Financial Reform
10-25-2009
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NYT
It sounded good when the Treasury’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, announced that top executives at Citigroup, Bank of America and the other five institutions surviving at taxpayers’ expense would see their compensation packages cut in half this year an
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News Link • Obama Administration
Is Housing Tax Credit D.O.A.?? What's That Mean?
10-25-2009
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Zero Hedge
The $8,000 tax credit for first time homebuyers is turning into a disaster of major proportions. According to a WSJ (and other) report fraud has been rampant in this program. Some highlights:
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News Link • General Opinion
George Carlin ~ The American Dream
10-25-2009
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You Tube/Zero Hedge
Found on Zero Hedge article under remarks seems fitting. Because I didn’t hear any real answers. Just more stories to meet a political agenda.
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News Link • Climate Change
How They Are Turning Off the Lights in America
10-25-2009
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Lew Rockwell (HT Economic Policy Journal)
On October 31, 2009, the once largest aluminum plant in the world will shut down. With it goes another American industry and more American jobs. The Columbia Falls Aluminum Company in Montana will shut down its aluminum production because it cannot p
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News Link • Propaganda
Former AG Michael Mukasey: Our Laws Brought About 9-11 Attacks
10-25-2009
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WSJ.com
“We tried the first World Trade Center bombers in civilian courts. In return we got 9/11 and the murder of nearly 3,000 innocents.”
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News Link • Climate Change
Eat Your Dog, Save the Earth
10-25-2009
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FOX News
New Zealand authors Robert and Brenda Vale's book, "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" is an exhaustive analysis of the environmental impact of common pets such as cats and dogs
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