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Date Sent: 2009-11-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, November 5, 2009 PM edition |
Smaller Banks Going Bust Under Commercial Real Estate Loan Defaults -- Ron Paul in 2012?
Ex-head of NY police pleads guilty to corruption -- More on secret copyright treaty: Your kids could go to jail -- Job Losses? Not in North Dakota. --
Supervisors voted to impose a $20 additional fee on Photo Tickets --
Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime's wild side? -- Frank says he will reconsider derivatives rules
-- Democrats' plan to help 'uninsurables' questioned -- Congress set to
clear aid to jobless, homebuyers -- VENEZUELA: Homophobia Stalks the
Streets - in Uniform -- Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. -- Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
Ron Paul on the Alex Jones Show today -- The ThisNovember5th.com money bomb is TODAY!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Smaller Banks Going Bust Under Commercial Real Estate Loan Defaults
11-05-2009
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McClatchy News
Just as the housing sector appears to be recovering, gathering problems in the commercial real estate market threaten to become a new drag on the economy.
This year smaller lenders and community banks are going bust at an alarming rate because of t
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul in 2012?
11-05-2009
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Russia Today youtube
As America becomes disillusioned with Obama, there may be an opening for third party candidates. One of those potential candidates is Texas Republican Ron Paul. Although he hasn't announced that he will run in 2012, supporters are pushing for a candi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-head of NY police pleads guilty to corruption
11-05-2009
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Reuters
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to White House officials and tax evasion charges in a deal that could send him to prison for almost three years.
Kerik, who as head of the police department
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
More on secret copyright treaty: Your kids could go to jail for noncommercial music sharing
11-05-2009
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BoingBoing
The U.S. and Japan supplied the initial text for extending criminal enforcement to both cases of a commercial nature and cases involving significant willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
A gentleman's guide to toppling foreign governments
11-05-2009
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Asylum
Mann was arrested as he waited on the tarmac at Harare airport, Zimbabwe, for arms to load on to a Boeing 727 carrying 64 mercenaries recruited in South Africa and headed for Equatorial Guinea. We'll show you where this conspirator went wrong.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
Thou Shalt Not Build in Counter-Economic Fashion
11-05-2009
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Sun-Sentinel
Similar operations are being conducted statewide this week, including in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, as part of the state agency's quarterly crackdowns on unlicensed workers in the 19 professions it regulates.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Property Rights
Thou Shalt Not Engage in Counter-Economics
11-05-2009
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Las Vegas Review Journal
For the good of the tourism industry and the city's reputation, the [Nevada Transportation Authority] wants to eliminate unlicensed, uninsured limo drivers who have failed to undergo background checks. [oh, and protectionism, but just for safety]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Humor
SPOOF: Make your own vaccine
11-05-2009
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TysonTV.com
Vaccine scarcity and government recommendations are really creating a vacuum for demand. Here's come creative problem solving whipped up by some Canadians.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Expected to Request More War Financing
11-04-2009
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NY Times
The nation’s top military officer said he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Job Losses? Not in North Dakota.
11-05-2009
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Huffington Post
North Dakota is the only state in the Union to own its own bank. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) was established by the state legislature in 1919, specifically to free farmers and small businessmen from the clutches of out-of-state bankers and railroa
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November
11-05-2009
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thisnovember5th.com
Today is the two year anniversary of the first Ron Paul money bomb! Please contribute to your favorite candidate(s).
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Free Speech
Neo-Nazi NSM Scum to Rally at the Arizona Capitol Saturday, Nov. 7th
11-05-2009
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Phoenix New Times - Feathered Bastard
"Let's not mince labels, here: The neo-Nazis who'll be rallying at the state Capitol this coming Saturday afternoon are lowlife degenerates." Feathered Bastard
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Maricopa County Supervisors voted Wednesday to impose a $20 fee for Photo Tickets
11-05-2009
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KTAR.com
Thomas Costanzo, said, "Make it $500, make it $1,000. So that way, the people of the state will realize what a bunch of thieves we have working in our government."
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why did blue-chip Goldman take a walk on subprime's wild side?
11-05-2009
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McClatchy News
A glimpse inside sheds light on how one of Wall Street's proudest and most prestigious firms helped create a market for junk mortgages, contributing to the economic morass that's cost millions of Americans their jobs and their homes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Frank says he will reconsider derivatives rules
11-05-2009
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AP
House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire (being lobbied) from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what they call loopholes in legislation designed to prevent another economic meltdown, said in a lette
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Democrats' plan to help 'uninsurables' questioned
11-05-2009
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AP
You're afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down. You could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool provided you go uncovered (and survive) for six months to qualify.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Congress set to clear aid to jobless, homebuyers
11-05-2009
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AP
The bill, costing $24 billion, would provide every American running out of unemployment insurance benefits this year with an additional 14 weeks. The out-of-work in states with jobless rates at >8.5% would get 6 more weeks on top of that.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Boy's lawyer: Judge in murder case is biased
11-05-2009
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AP
"It appears that the court has succumbed to political pressure from some local 'citizens' to have the juvenile removed from the community." Apache Co. Attorney said he will support efforts to remove the judge because Roca reversed himself, potentiall
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
VENEZUELA: Homophobia Stalks the Streets - in Uniform
11-04-2009
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IPS
"Of those arrested, our identity documents and mobile phones were taken away, we were beaten, our sexual orientation was insulted, and we were refused permission to speak to the Justice Ministry officials" [lucky they weren't golfing]
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Internet
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
11-04-2009
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BoingBoing
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. ISPs have to proactively police copyright on u
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
11-04-2009
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Daily Telegraph
The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.
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