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Date Sent: 2009-11-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 16, 2009 AM edition |
Global Oil Scam: 50X Bigger than Madoff -- Fed could offer 'liquidity backstop' to SOME FIRMS
Some Gitmo detainees finally get day in court -- U.S. Asks More From Pakistan in Terror War -- Taxpayers on hook as some bailed-out firms prove frail -- Police tase and arrest hero for stuttering -- The Supreme Court should roast in Hades over Kelo -- Get Your Kids Fit For Slaughter! - by Will Grigg -- “Al-Qaeda would love to buy your pictures” -- Mississippi Cardiologist Won’t Go to Prison for Online Dating
-- Police harass FIJA activist, arrest the videographer -- Police
handing out tickets for air fresheners -- Army Sends Infant to
Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan -- Iraq: Investigation into new claims of torture by British soldiers -- Government Drug Teleconference Punked by Stoners -- Iran's central bank coin sale bursts "gold bubble"
AZ: Thursday Breakfast: 9-11 Truth Movement, with Truthers Mike Shoen, & Russ Wittenberg
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News Link • Energy
The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff
11-15-2009
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Seeking Alpha
Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), et al founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000 to facilitate "dark pool" trading in the commodities markets. It is outside the US and operates free from the constraints of US laws.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed could offer 'liquidity backstop' to SOME FIRMS
11-15-2009
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Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said the central bank could curtail the risk of future liquidity crises by providing a "backstop" to solvent firms with sufficient collateral. "The central bank could commit to being the lend
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Some Gitmo detainees finally get day in court
11-15-2009
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AP
In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison....Complying with a Supreme Court ruling last year, 15 federal judges in the U.S. courthouse here are giving det
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Asks More From Pakistan in Terror War
11-15-2009
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NY Times
The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that President Obama is p
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Apology for Kids Shipped From Britain to Colonies
11-15-2009
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NY Times
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued an historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.
At a ceremony in the A
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
MSNBC Presses Obama on Campaign Promises
11-15-2009
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NY Times
The spectacle of Democrats sniping at one another is not new, but having a TV home for it is. MSNBC " sometimes critically called the “home team” for supporters of Mr. Obama " has even hit upon the theme with a promotional tagline, “pushing back on t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Taxpayers on hook as some bailed-out firms prove frail
11-15-2009
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Washington Post
A year ago, the financial system was tottering and government officials arranged a $2.3 billion emergency cash infusion into CIT Group, a troubled lender to small businesses.
Today, CIT is in bankruptcy court, and the taxpayers' investment is on t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Family
November Evocations of Christmas
11-15-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
Sharing this day with my regular readers.
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Christine -
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama kisses -- not kicks -- ass in Asia
11-15-2009
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wendymcelroy.com/
I did a radio interview with Ernest Hancock of FreedomsPhoenix in which talk turned to the deepening crisis in the economy which I think will take a plunge in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2010. Several factors fuel my expectations -- e.g. a slew of mort
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Microwaved Water and Plants
11-15-2009
Below is a science fair project that my granddaughter did for 2006. In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
NFL: The Long and Winding Road of NFL Franchise Relocations
11-15-2009
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Mondo Frazier
When you think of the National Football League, the word “stability” comes to mind. But many of the NFL’s franchises have been “rolling stones”. Which teams have moved the most and which have been paragons of stability?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
H1N1 Mutation Fears in Ukraine: Victim’s Lungs “Black as Charcoal”, Reminiscent of Spanish Flu
11-15-2009
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Ginn
British scientists are testing a new extremely virulent “super flu” in the Ukraine which has killed over two hundred, and where some doctors have likened the symptoms to the 1918 Pandemic, or Spanish Flu. Some of the victim’s lung suffered “total lun
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police tase and arrest hero for stuttering
11-15-2009
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Wendy McElroy
A man was tased by police, arrested, and jailed after risking his life and suffering second degree burns on his arms, head, and torso to run back into his burning house to make sure all of his guests were warned of the fire and assisting them to esca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Property Rights
The Supreme Court should roast in Hades over Kelo
11-15-2009
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Wendy McElroy
The U.S. Supreme Court established a hideous precedent in 2005 ruling the city [state] gained the legal 'right' to confiscate homes and businesses owned by individuals in order to clear the way for 'development', including by private corporations.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Get Your Kids Fit For Slaughter! - by Will Grigg
11-15-2009
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Pro Liberate
Our ruling elite has arranged things in such a way that they are always sending Americans to war. This requires a steady and growing supply of trigger-pullers and coffin-stuffers, and they are worried kids simply aren't fit for slaughter.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
“Al-Qaeda would love to buy your pictures”
11-15-2009
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A photographer who was taking pictures inside the L.A. subway was detained for 25 minutes where he was accused of working for Al-Qaeda and threatened with having his name placed on a terrorist watch list. All on video.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Mississippi Cardiologist Won’t Go to Prison for Online Dating
11-15-2009
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The Agitator
Months ago I posted about federal prosecutors’ pursuit of Dr. Weiner, an outspoken cardiologist who was charged with Mann Act violations for using a Memphis-based website while in Mississippi to meet and date adult women.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police harass FIJA activist, arrest the videographer
11-15-2009
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Blog of Bile
Police arrested a freelance videographer and confiscated the memory card from his camera while he was recording a FIJA activist passing out literature in front of a courthouse. The videographer, goes by the name of “bile,” was on public property
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Coral Attacks! Caught Eating Jellyfish for 1st Time
11-15-2009
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Treehugger
Weird nature stuff. Observe--for the first time in recorded history--coral chowing down on a jellyfish. According to the BBC, coral normally feed on microscopic like plankton, certainly not entire jellyfish. But that's exactly what's happening here,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Police handing out tickets for air fresheners
11-15-2009
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Chicago Tribune
Ermir Spahiu was pulled over by police for his window-mounted GPS unit. For Tina Ross, it was her handicapped placard. And Mark Hubbard was nailed for an air freshener. All 3 were stopped for innocent items placed near their windshields.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
11-15-2009
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Truthout
US Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Iraq: Investigation into new claims of torture by British soldiers
11-15-2009
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Daily Telegraph
New allegations that British soldiers tortured and sexually abused Iraqi civilians are being "investigated" by the Ministry of Defence.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Rent-a-Goat in Action! Clearing Brush the Way Nature Intended It
11-15-2009
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Treehugger
We've written many times about goats being used to replace lawnmowers and to clear brush. Well, we can now add to that list the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant company. Very cool before & after pics.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Government Drug Teleconference Punked by Stoners
11-15-2009
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Denver Westworld
What happens when the state decides to hold a last-minute meeting on a controversial topic like medical marijuana, then tries to hold it via a conference call using technology that apparently no one knows how to work? Comic genius.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling
11-15-2009
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Farm Wars
A follow-up to Al Gore's confession about CO2. Dr. Easterbrook details why CO2 is not causing global warming, and projects cyclical global cooling.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Iran's central bank coin sale bursts "gold bubble"
11-15-2009
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Reuters
The price of gold coins in Iran feel by more than 4 percent after the Central Bank started supplying newly-minted coins to the market, Iranian newspapers reported on Sunday. "The gold bubble burst", read a headline in the daily Jam-e Jam
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Jean Carbonneau
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