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Date Sent: 2010-01-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 28, 2010

US in Secret Joint Operations With Yemeni Troops -- Pentagon wants 'Office of Strategic Deception'

Bush order allowing murder of US citizens abroad still in effect -- Details of Iraq whistleblower's alleged suicide to be sealed 70 years -- Fed Worked to Keep AIG Deal Details Quiet -- Unprecedented shutdown hammers Toyota -- Apple's Jobs unveils 'intimate' $499 iPad tablet -- Former Fed Prosecutor and AG Candidate Accused of Stealing from Glock -- What Wall Street wants from Obama in State of the Union address -- Clinton pushes once more for Iran sanctions -- 4409: 6,700 DVD's for Operation Quartszite -- NKorea, SKorea Exchange Fire Near Disputed Border -- Income angst? Not for public employees - by Jeff Jacoby -- Haiti's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered - by Stephen Lendman -- States' rights rebellion over National Guard -- Haiti Death Toll 240,000 to 400,000 -- Inflation: How The Fed Picks Your Pocket and Raids Your Bank Account - by Sharon Secor -- China Auto Industry World's Largest

Shorts: Hillary Clinton says not interested in a 2nd term as SOS; NKorea fires second round of artillery shells into SKorea

AZ: Thursday Breakfast Debate on Holocaust

News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. in Secret Joint Operations With Yemeni Troops
01-27-2010 • Fox News
Yemeni troops in the past six weeks have killed scores of people -- among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional Al Qaeda affiliate -- according to senior administration officials. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Misinformation
Pentagon calls for ‘Office of Strategic Deception’
01-27-2010 • Rawstory
Remember the Pentagon Office of Special Plans that helped collect dubious intelligence that led to the war in Iraq? Or where the Pentagon secretly briefed military analysts to promote the Iraq war? Meet the would-be Office of Strategic Deception. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Bush order allowing murder of US citizens abroad still in effect
01-27-2010 • Rawstory
If a United States citizen was determined to have joined a foreign terrorist group, that person could be legally murdered under orders given by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. In spite of an administration change in Washington, D. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Conspiracies
Details of Iraq whistleblower’s alleged suicide to be sealed 70 years
01-27-2010 • Rawstory
By 2080, anyone with a direct interest in learning how Dr. David Kelly died, will be dead. A recent ruling ordering the details of the former UN weapons inspector's death locked away for 70 years. Kelly's story was gravely important Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
Government knew ‘no leg to stand on’ legally to go to war in Iraq
01-27-2010 • Daily Telegraph
Sir Michael Wood, chief legal adviser at the Foreign Office, painted a vivid picture of how his team repeatedly intervened privately to correct ministers who were stating that a fresh UN resolution was not legally necessary, but their advice was igno Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

Opinion  • Conspiracies
Myths and Facts of Conspiracy Theories
01-27-2010
Mike Renzulli
   Not only are conspiracy theories grounded in nothing more than speculation, the charlatans who churn them out are hostile to people being able to reason and think for themselves.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Worked to Keep AIG Deal Details Quiet
01-27-2010 • Forbes
Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials scrambled to do damage control in the days after their $180 billion rescue of American International Group in September 2008, including an effort to control information by asking AIG to run significant outsi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community
01-27-2010 • Rawstory
Two of the three men arrested on Tuesday along with "ACORN pimp" James O'Keefe for "maliciously tampering" with Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. gives Yemen key intelligence to strike al Qaeda
01-27-2010 • Reuters
U.S. Special Forces, the CIA and the National Security Agency have played an important part in the growing covert assistance program aimed at helping Yemeni forces track down and kill the leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Archaeology
Dinosaur Sported Colorful Feathers
01-27-2010 • LiveScience
Our image of what dinosaurs looked like has just been colorized, thanks to fossilized feather remains showing one meat-eating beast sported a striped tail of white and gingery bands. Not only do the results paint a jazzier picture of the ancient g Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Economy - International
Unprecedented shutdown hammers Toyota, partners
01-27-2010 • Reuters
Toyota Motor Corp shares dropped more than 8 percent on Wednesday in U.S. trading as concern deepened about the automaker's suspension of sales and production of some of its best-selling vehicles due to problems with faulty accelerators. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Apple's Jobs unveils 'intimate' $499 iPad tablet
01-27-2010 • AP
Apple Inc. will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499, a price tag far below the $1,000 that some analysts were expecting. The iPad, which is larger in size but similar in design to Apple's popular iPhone, was billed by CEO Steve Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Geithner draws fire defending Fed on AIG bailout
01-27-2010 • AP
Democrats and Republicans alike pummeled Treasury Secretary Geithner over his role in the $180 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG, venting public anger over Wall Street's return to prosperity while unemployment stands at 10%. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Corruption
Former Fed Prosecutor and AG Candidate Accused of Stealing from Glock, Inc.
01-27-2010 • www.lawofficer.com
ATLANTA - A former federal prosecutor hired by gun manufacturer Glock to investigate fraud within the company has been accused of stealing about $3 million from the gunmaker. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Chip Saunders

Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence With Ernest Hancock Afternoon January 27th 2010
"State of the Union" speech predictions. Adam Kokesh www.kokeshforcongress.com joins Ernest to make predictions about the 'libertarian' Republicans lining up to seek the 2012 Republican nomination for POTUS. Including Gary Johnson, Fmr. Governor New
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Feature Article  • Obama Administration
President Obama's LIVE "State of the Union Speech"
Ernest Hancock

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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host: Ernest Hancock
Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Morning January 27th 2010
Ernest takes flight on his heretofore unnoticed wings of shimmering gossamer to tell us "what it be like." - Obama's State of the Union is discussed,... predictions of what will be said and _not_ said.
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News Link • Science
Daredevil Space Diver To Leap Toward World's First Supersonic Free-Fall From 120,000 Feet
01-27-2010 • PopSci.com
Here’s Felix Baumgartner’s plan: Float a balloon to 120,000 feet. Jump out. Break the sound barrier. Don’t die. Simple, right? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Mexico
Video: Exploring Mexico's Otherworldly Cave of Crystals
01-27-2010 • PopSci.com
Silver miners first discovered Mexico's surreal Cave of Crystals almost a decade ago. The BBC recently took a rare tour of the underground cavern that contains the world's largest naturally grown crystals, where some selenite structures reach almost Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Elizabeth Warren On The Daily Show: If We Don't Act 'The Game Really Is Over' (VIDEO)
01-27-2010 • Huffington Post
On Tuesday night's Daily Show, bailout watchdog and financial reform advocate Elizabeth Warren told Jon Stewart that "this is really the moment" that will determine the future of America's middle class -- the system must be fixed or "the game really Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Transportation
Cool DIY Streamliner Motorcycle Gets 214 MPG
01-27-2010 • Wired
We love eco-modders and hypermilers because their singular pursuit of superlative fuel economy often results in innovative thinking and interesting vehicles. Like, say, this Honda streamliner. Not only did Allert Jacobs’ slick DIY fairing make a pede Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Welfare: Political
What Wall Street wants from Obama in State of the Union address
01-27-2010 • ChristianScienceMonitor.com
President Obama has responded to recent setbacks by striking a more populist tone, and his primary target has been Wall Street. Bankers are hoping he takes a more inclusive line in his State of the Union address Wednesday. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Katie Couric: "Anatomy of a Teabagger"
01-27-2010 • Crooks and Liars
Katie Couric interviewed a few teabaggers to get to the bottom of their beliefs, because generally the media hasn't bothered to check them out like we have. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Technology: Software
Google Chrome 4.0 stable version released for Windows
01-27-2010 • Phys.org
The extensions (around 1,500 of them) were released for users of the Chrome 4.0 browser beta version last December, but the gallery is now available for all users running Windows. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Techno Gadgets
How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon
01-27-2010 • PopSci.com
An inventive duo's giant homemade air cannon can project a pumpkin--or anything else--at 600 miles an hour Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Weather News - Links - History
As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow �" First Chill �" Then Stupor �" Then the Letting Go
01-27-2010 • Lew Rockwell/Peter Stark
When your Jeep spins lazily off the mountain road and slams backward into a snowbank, you don't worry immediately about the cold. Your first thought is that you've just dented your bumper. Your second is that you've failed to bring a shovel. Your thi Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Gun Rights
Love Song for Firearms Becomes an Internet Hit
01-27-2010 • LewRockwell.com
Steve Lee says he never set out to be an internet hit. He just loves guns �" and thought he would write a song about it. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Chief of Staff Draws Fire From Left as Obama Falters
01-27-2010 • Wall Street Journa;
President Barack Obama's liberal backers have a long list of grievances. The Guantanamo Bay prison is still open. Health care hasn't been transformed. And Wall Street banks are still paying huge bonuses. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Economics: Austrian
Keynes vs Hayek (Govt control vs Free Mkt) - the argument in Rap?
01-27-2010 • Granite Grok
I am of the free market persuasion in that people should be allowed to make up their own minds and have the freedom to be in the market as THEY wish - and not under the rubric of "but we know better" as the Keynesian believers as all Progressives are Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Bailouts
Geithner Says A.I.G. Rescue Prevented a Depression
01-27-2010 • New York Times
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was sworn in on Wednesday ahead of testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the collapse and bailout of the insurance company AIG. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • World News
A free man: what is pope gunman's next move?
01-27-2010 • Yahoo
This week, the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981 and just got out of jail drove to a police station. He wore sunglasses and was escorted by several heavyset men in suits. Inside, officers took his fingerprints with a scanner, and he applied for a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Iran
Clinton pushes once more for Iran sanctions
01-27-2010 • AP
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is using meetings in London this week to press ahead with imposing tough new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's goal: Get agenda moving, people believing
01-27-2010 • Yahoo
Facing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Barack Obama will unveil a jobs-heavy agenda in his State of the Union address Wednesday, retooling his message more than his mission. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Activism
Denis Goddard and the NH Liberty alliance! Seat belt law, Fija Bill
10-23-10 • www.LCLReport.com
We interview Denis Goddard about the fight to keep a seat belt law out of New Hampshire. New Hampshire is the only state that does not have a seat bill law. We also discuss How the NH Liberty Alliance works inside the state. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Tarrin Lupo

News Link • Political Parties
Sarah Palin's Tea Party Dinner Disaster
01-27-2010 • Mother Jones
Unsold tickets, activists demanding refunds�"will Palin wind up addressing a half-empty room at the Tea Party convention? Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

News Link • Obama Administration
When did the State of the Union become a red carpet event?
01-27-2010 • ChristianScienceMonitor.com
The Constitution directs the president to periodically brief Congress about the nation's needs. But not until Woodrow Wilson did a president deliver an address in person �" and launch a tradition that is now in large part theater. Read Full Story
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Reported by: Donna Hancock

Feature Article  • Videos by 4409
4409 -- 6,700 DVD's for Operation Quartszite.
Forty Four O Nine
   (VIDEO) This is just round one...we're going back again with more. We burned over 6,700 DVD's and took them to Quartszite,
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News Link • Bailouts
Bernanke - HIDING A SMOKING GUN!!!!!!!!!!
01/27/2010 • godlikeproductions.com
A Republican senator said Tuesday that documents showing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernake covered up the fact that his staff recommended he not bailout AIG are being kept from the public. And a House Republican charged that a whistleblower Read Full Story
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Reported by: Phennommennonn GLP

News Link • World News
NKorea, SKorea Exchange Fire Near Disputed Border
01-27-2010 • AP
North Korea fired artillery rounds toward its disputed sea border with South Korea on Wednesday, prompting a barrage of warning shots from the South's military and raising tensions on the divided peninsula. No casualties or damage were reported, a Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Weather News - Links - History
231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest
01-27-2010 • AP
New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth. The concession came 3 days after the World Meteorological Organization reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up Read Full Story
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Reported by: Powell Gammill

News Link • Government
Income angst? Not for public employees
01-27-2010 • Jeff Jacoby
The federal government has been adding jobs at a 10,000-a-month clip. Between December 2007 and June 2009, federal payrolls exploded by nearly 10 percent. And data from the Office of Personnel Management show the average federal salary is now roughly Read Full Story
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Reported by: Leon Felkins

News Link • States' Rights
States' rights rebellion over National Guard
01-26-2010 • World Net Daily
Responding to an executive order by President Obama, a new push is under way for states to adopt laws limiting the use of their National Guard units unless there is an invasion, insurrection or other limited circumstance.

As WND reported, Obama Read Full Story
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Reported by: Michael Boldin

Feature Article  • Imperialism
Haiti's Earthquake: Natural or Engineered
Stephen Lendman
   Today's technology can engineer earthquakes
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News Link • Climate Change
IPCC Conspiracy
01-27-2010 • arclein
I was at the table with three Europeans, and we were having lunch. And they were talking about their role as lead authors. And they were talking about how they were trying to make the report so dramatic that the United States would just have to sign Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • World News
Haiti Death Toll 240,000 to 400,000
01-27-2010 • arclein
200,000 now appears to be the minimum for Port au Prince alone. With a final number probably in the range of 210,000-350,000. Leogane was at epicenter and has been getting much help. 30,000 minimum and probable range of 40,000-60,000. Total probabl Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

News Link • China
China Auto Industry World's Largest
01-27-2010 • arclein
he China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced annual sales rose 46.15 percent year on year to 13.64 million units. Output increased 48.3 percent to 13.79 million units. Passenger car sales were up 52.93 percent to 10.33 million u Read Full Story
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Reported by: robert klein

Opinion  • Federal Reserve
Refuse To Bow To The Illegitimate Power Of The State
Inflation �" How The Fed Picks Your Pocket and Raids Your Bank Account
01-27-2010
Sharon Secor
   The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States and controls national monetary policy. The Fed, not to be confused with the federal government of which it is not a part, also picks your pockets and raids your bank accounts.
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Opinion  • Religion: Believers
Words Eye View
Was Pat Robertson Right? - Did Haiti Make a Pact With the Devil?
01-26-2010
Greg J Dixon
   During an interview on CBN's "700 Club" Wednesday January 13, Pat Robertson alleged that Haiti's liberation from France was the result of a deal with the devil. . . .
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Feature Article  • Events: Arizona
Thursday Breakfast Debate: The Holocaust: History's Greatest Genocide or Outright Hoax?
Powell Gammill
   The Holocaust: History's Greatest Genocide or Outright Hoax? Pat Schwind debates Holocaust Denier Friedrich Paul Berg.
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