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Date Sent: 2010-03-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
Chinese ETF Could Send Waves of Chinese Investors Into U.S. Stocks -- ACORN folds
Daylight saving time a waste of energy -- Arizona State Senate Ethics Committee Asked to Review Russell Pearce's Actions -- Rep. Giffords' Tucson office vandalized after health care vote -- U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan -- SpaceShipTwo Makes First (Captive) Flight -- Google Shuts Down Search Site in China -- Obama Pays More Than Buffett as U.S. Risks AAA Rating -- Healthcare Reform Passes - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. -- Depleted Uranium affects DNA -- Vehicle Miles Driven Decline in January -- Underemployment At Record 20% -- State and Local Governments: A Ruinous Fiscal Meltdown -- Air travelers to see tougher security -- USA Healthcare and the Myth of Competition -- Welcome to the Insurance Bailout
AZ: RED ALERT! Pearce National ID Bill HB2632/SB1071 Back to the House Floor Today, March 23, 1pm
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chinese ETF Could Send Waves of Chinese Investors Into U.S. Stocks
03-22-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Due to past investment restrictions, this ETF is sure to be a goldmine for the firm as it suddenly opens up the U.S. stock market to Chinese savings.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
ACORN folds
03-22-2010
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Politico
The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include:
* Closing ACORN’s remaining state affiliates and field of
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Opinion • New World Order
Russell Pearce Caught Lying a Fourth Time!
03-22-2010
John Green
"It's not in there! It's not in there!" has been Senator Pearce's only response to the facts and words of what's actually in his bill, HB2632. Now he's got a new one. Apparently, revealing the actual words of his bill "misleads" people. This guy
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News Link • Energy
Daylight saving time a waste of energy
03-22-2010
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PhysOrg
The conclusion reached was that while the lighting costs were reduced in the afternoons by daylight saving, the greater heating costs in the mornings, and more use of air-conditioners on hot afternoons more than offset these savings.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Legal and Political Fights Loom for Democrats
03-22-2010
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The New York Times
The battle over health care is poised to move swiftly from Congress back to the country as Democrats, Republicans and a battery of interest groups race to define the legislation and dig in for long-term political and legal fights.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare
Inside the Pelosi Sausage Factory
03-22-2010
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The Wall Street Journal
Kimberly Strassel outlines the dirty deals, open threats, broken promises and disregard for democracy that pulled ObamaCare to this point, and how the same machinations pushed it across the finish line.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Rep. Giffords' Tucson office vandalized after health care vote
03-22-2010
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Arizona Daily Star
The front door was smashed out at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional office last night. At 2:40 a.m., just a few hours after staff left the building after the late-night [healthcare] vote, the alarm system went off, said spokesman
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U-2 Spy Plane Evades the Day of Retirement
03-22-2010
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NY Times
Even from 13 miles up its sensors can detect small disturbances in the dirt, providing a new way to find makeshift mines that kill many soldiers. The U-2’s altitude enables it to scoop up signals from insurgent phone conversations that mountains woul
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. may expand use of its prison in Afghanistan
03-22-2010
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LA Times
The White House is considering whether to detain international terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said, an option that would lead to another prison with the same purpose as Guantanamo Bay, which it has pr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceShipTwo Makes First (Captive) Flight
03-22-2010
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Wired
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo made its first captive carry flight early this morning at the Mojave Air and Space Port. SpaceShipTwo, which was christened the VSS Enterprise at its unveiling in December, is being carried by WhiteKnightTwo on its firs
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Google Shuts Down Search Site in China
03-22-2010
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London Times
Google has effectively closed its flagship search site in China, finally carrying out its threat made two months ago in a dispute over censorship with the Chinese authorities.
The company announced that it had stopped censoring its search results
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama Pays More Than Buffett as U.S. Risks AAA Rating
03-22-2010
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Bloomberg
The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama.
2-year notes sold by the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway in February yield 3.5 basis points less than Treasuries of similar maturity, according to data compiled
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The War on Drugs Is Doomed
03-22-2010
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Wall Street Journal - Mary O'Grady
Strong demand and the high profits that are the result of prohibition make illegal trafficking unstoppable.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Connect the Dots, Freedom is being Hijacked
03/22/2010
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Uncommon Sense
So here we are; today we are on the verge of the “fundamental transformation of America”. America is being stolen from its’ citizens and most remain unaware of the magnitude of what is happening. While many worry about how they are doing in their NCA
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Reported by:
Dave Johannes
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News Link • Corruption
Colorado State goon gets popped for DUI while driving DPS cruiser!! Dozens of calls to 911...
03-22-2010
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KUSA-TV 9 - Denver
..... Yes, Virginia, there really IS a Satan Claus~
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Reported by:
Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Healthcare
Democrats Have Just Killed 180,000 Americans
03-22-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Many Democrats assured us that "45,000 people die each year because of a lack of health care reform." The newly-passed bill just condemned 180,000 Americans to death--by the Democrats own words.
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Healthcare
Depleted Uranium Research-DU affects DNA
03-22-2010
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Veterans Today
The research on depleted uranium comes out of French researchers that examined the manner DNA is affected by enriched and depleted uranium. The metal or chemical effect it seems is the more important in depleted uranium exposure.
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Housing
The Glut in the Mortgage Market: Self-Reinforced and Going Down
03-22-2010
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DailyReckoning.com
And don’t forget the “strategic default” phenomenon. Professor Luigi Zingales at the University of Chicago estimates 35% of home mortgage defaults in December were by folks who could keep up their payments, but decided it just wasn’t worth their whil
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona Laws and Arizona Founding Documents
'Campaign For Liberty' Analyzes Pearce's Un-American Bill
03-22-2010
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Campaaign For Liberty
A true anti-freedom bill, an Arizona version of REAL ID, is to be voted on in the Arizona House of Representatives by the Committee of the Whole (COW, in other words the full house) TODAY
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Activism
Palin to campaign with McCain in Mesa
03-22-2007
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Phoenix Business Journal
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will campaign with U.S. Sen. John McCain in Arizona this month.
McCain, an Arizona Republican, is seeking a fifth term in the U.S. Senate. Palin, McCain's vice presidential pick in his failed 2008 presidential run,
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Reported by:
Nick Barnett
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State of the Economy: Vehicle Miles Driven Decline in January
03-22-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
As the DOT noted, miles driven in January 2010 were down -1.6% compared to January 2009, and miles driven have declined 2.9% compared to January 2008, and are down 4.7% compared to January 2007. This is a multi-year decline...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Underemployment At Record 20% According To Gallup
03-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Unlike the Dept of Labor's arcane voodoo which lately is based more on executive confidential memos and snowfall observations, Gallup's underemployment measure is based on more than 20,000 phone interviews collected over a 30-day...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
RTA Polltape Trial Monday March 22 To Enforce Transparent Release of Pima County Public Election Rec
03-20-2010
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AUDIT-AZ
Judge Ted Borek, on Thursday, May 18, set a trial for Monday March 22, that is expected to lead to a court-ordered transparent process for copying these vital records.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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Opinion • New World Order
Russell Pearce caught Lying a THIRD time!
03-22-2010
John Green
Russell Pearce wants to "pass the bill to see what's in the bill". Just like what Obama and Pelosi said last week about the national healthcare bill, Pearce doesn't even know what's in his own bill! Here's another email from him, easily refuted, of
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Puppets and Propaganda: Fraction ... Er ... Fictional Reserve Banking
03-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
On paper - there are 10-to-1 reserve requirements, banks like JP Morgan were using 100 to 1 leverage. She said that, with derivatives, leverage might be much higher.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State and Local Governments: A Ruinous Fiscal Meltdown
03-22-2010
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nytimes.com/
In proportional terms, there has never been a drop in state revenues like we’re seeing now since people started to keep track of state revenues. We’re in unchartered territory when it comes to the magnitude of the impact.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Information Segregation: Sharecroppers Sit at the Back of This Bus
03-22-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
A number of forces now conspire to prevent the free dissemination of information to unapproved parties (the little guy) in the United States. Ironically, the more truthful and damaging the data, the more cause available to those wishing to oppress i
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Air travelers to see tougher security before breach
03-22-2010
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AP
For those who haven't flown in a while, be prepared to be scanned, swabbed or thoroughly patted down. Maybe all 3. Many spring break travelers are about to have their first encounter with airport security measures stepped up after Christmas,
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Mid-major uprising hardly biggest NCAA surprise
03-22-2010
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AP
Not so long ago, having Butler and Xavier among the last 16 teams in the NCAA tournament would have spawned feel-good stories about the plucky mid-major conferences and the wonderful hoops democracy that is March Madness.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
03-24-2010
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Pratap Chatterjee, Huffington Post
the mismanagement of the $7 billion spent on police training over the last 8 years, partly attributed to lax U.S. State Department oversight, has left the country of 33 million people with a strikingly ineffective and remarkably corrupt police force.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ultra Efficient Gasoline Engine Test
03-22-2010
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arclein
Transonic Combustion, a startup based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a fuel-injection system it says can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by more than 50 percent. A test vehicle equipped with the technology gets 64 miles per gallon in hi
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Smart Nano Particles Target Cancer
03-22-2010
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arclein
the researchers synthesized nanoparticles - shaped something like a dumbbell - made of gold sandwiched between two pieces of iron oxide. They then attached antibodies, which target a molecule found only in colorectal cancer cells, to the particles. O
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
USA Healthcare and the Myth of Competition
03-22-2010
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arclein
What no one has understood is that the insurance industry has no incentive whatsoever to negotiate lower costs. They get a percentage of the gross turnover and that means rising costs reward them. As a result, costs have persistently risen without
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Science
Icelandic Volcano Cycle Begins
03-22-2010
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arclein
"This could trigger Katla, which is a vicious volcano that could cause both local and global damage," Pall Einarsson, from the University of Iceland, said.
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Welcome to the Insurance Bailout
03/21/2010
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www.vanversive.net
Obamacare was passed tonight with 219 to 212 vote. The “Stealth Bailout Bill” for the insurance companies should be on the Presidents desk Tuesday to be signed into law. The bill was designed to provide insurance to 30 million Americans by expanding
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Jason Van Gilder
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