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Date Sent: 2010-01-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
SEC mulls national security status for AIG details -- US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drug
Tea Party Disputes Take Toll on Convention -- Obama to propose freeze on [some] government spending -- 7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About -- Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? -- Federal Subsidy Programs Top 2,000! -- I almost get thrown out at C4L event for filming a uninvited crasher! -- Legalize Competing Currencies - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul --
Can Barack Hussein Obama save his Presidency? -- Focus on Haiti:
Washington's Militarized Takeover - by Stephen Lendman -- The Heroic
Brad Jardis Kicked Out of LEAP!
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News Link • Corruption
SEC mulled national security status for AIG details
01-25-2010
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Reuters
US securities regulators originally treated the New York Federal Reserve's bid to keep secret many of the details of the American International Group bailout like a request to protect matters of national security, according to emails obtained by Reut
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Drug War
US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs'
01-24-2010
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independent.co.uk
After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born " amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Corruption
An Investigator Presses to Uncover Bailout Abuse
01-25-2010
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NY Times
Neil M. Barofsky is not a household name like some special investigators of the past " Kenneth Starr during the Clinton administration or Archibald Cox in the Watergate years.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent
01-25-2010
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NY Times
What some participants in the simulation knew " and others did not " was that a version of their nightmare had just played out in real life, not at the Pentagon where they were meeting, but in the far less formal war rooms at Google Inc. Computers at
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Tea Party Disputes Take Toll on Convention
01-25-2010
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NY Times
“We are very concerned about the appearance of T.P.N. profiteering and exploitation of the grass-roots movement,” he said in a statement. “We were under the impression that T.P.N. was a nonprofit organization like N.P.A., interested only in uniting a
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Carlos the Jackal, imprisoned for life, looks in lawsuit to protect his image
01-25-2010
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Washington Post
Long before Osama bin Laden, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, was the most famous terrorist of his era, bursting onto the scene with a spectacular hostage-taking of 11 OPEC oil ministers in 1975 and feeding his fame with more bloody a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
China spends billions to study dinosaur fossils at sites of major discoveries
01-25-2010
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Washington Post
What killed the dinosaurs? Scientist Wang Haijun thinks the answer may be buried inside a 980-foot-long ravine in the Chinese countryside 415 miles southeast of Beijing where hundreds of the creatures may have huddled in the final moments before thei
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama to propose freeze on government spending
01-25-2010
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Washington Post
Under mounting pressure to rein in mammoth budget deficits, President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security, a concession to public concern about governmen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About
01-25-2010
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Huffington Post
Hanrahan's articles explore key elements of the story that reporters should have been -- and should still be -- writing about. Among them: The endemic fraud at the heart of the collapse, the resultant need for a comprehensive dissection of some key f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro?
01-25-2010
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Time magazine
Use of the word Negro to describe a black person has largely fallen out of polite conversation " except on the U.S. Census questionnaire. There, under "What is this person's race?" is an option that reads, "Black, African Am., or Negro." That has rai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Order 81, Iraq, and the Decimation of Traditional Seeds
01-25-2010
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INEAS
It wasn't enough to wipe out the Iraqi heritage seed supply, now the country's farmers are enslaved to U.S. biotech corporations.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Latin America's Tilt to the Right?
01-25-2010
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The Independent Institute
There has been abundant talk of Latin America’s tilt to the left this past decade. But such chatter will soon become highly antiquated. Presidential contests in key countries are almost certain to move the region rightward.
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Mike Renzulli
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Feature Article • Humor
EU Government Meddlers - Too Funny to Pass Up
John Green
Per Der Spiegel in Germany this week: "This video has the potential to become a net phenomenon. It begins with Economic Minister Gunther Oettinger who says, 'English is becoming the language of work. All workers and business owners need to know it.
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Feature Article • Currencies
GOLD STANDARD NOT REQUIRED
John Green
Why do "free marketeers" continue to maintain that some global, standard system of currency is needed? How is that any different from what the IMF or the Fed does? No standard is needed. Privatization of currency is all that is required!
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies
01-25-2010
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Gordon Duff
Never forget. Don't let this rest until the criminals are routed out and sentenced for crimes against humanity.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Property Rights
Federal Subsidy Programs Top 2,000!
01-25-2010
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CATO @ Liberty
January 22, 2010 is a day that should live in infamy, at least among believers in limited government. On that day, the federal government added its 2,000th subsidy program for individuals, businesses, or state and local governments.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Activism
I almost get thrown out at C4L event for filming a uninvited crasher!
01-16-10
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www.LCLReport.com
I filmed an uninvited crasher being thrown out by Campaign for Liberty security. Instead of worrying about the crasher, the security then comes after me and demands that I shut off my camera. They then come over and grab my camera and point it away t
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Can Barack Hussein Obama save his Presidency?
01-25-2010
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Buffalohair Gazette International
My answer to this trillion dollar question is yes he can, but there are some deep changes that must talk place in order to win back the hearts of this nation. The very first thing he must do is fire all his advisors and say nyet to the globalization
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Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Pope Proclaims: Go Forth and Blog
01-25-2010
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arclein
But Benedict has also praised new ways of communicating as a "gift to humanity" when used to foster friendship and understanding.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Raw Milk
01-25-2010
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arclein
The legislation was originally created to protect the vulnerable, but the cow-share members were not vulnerable and were cognizant of all concerns associated with drinking unpasteurized milk, he added.
"They consume the milk at their own risk," sa
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Haitian Fault
01-25-2010
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arclein
The Enriquillo fault generally moves left-laterally (horizontally, with features across the fault shifting to the left when the fault breaks in an earthquake), but vertical movements occur along the fault where irregularities in the fault line cause
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robert klein
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
In Drug War, Tribe Feels Invaded by Both Sides
01-24-2010
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NY Times
Residents are angry at the intrusion of 100's of federal agents, some who stay on bases in remote parts of the reservation. Agents means more checkpoints and tighter controls on a border that tribal members, 1,500 who live in Mexico, once freely cros
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The HeroicBrad Jardis Kicked Out of LEAP!
01-24-2010
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Ian Freeman
A few days ago on freekeene.com, news was posted that longtime NH police officer Brad Jardis was no longer going to arrest medical cannabis users. LEAP did not think Jardis' statements were best for their appearance, and kicked him out.
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Reported by:
Ben Nichols
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