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Date Sent: 2009-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 6, 2009 |
Asian Stock Markets Resume Slide This Morning -- No Oath Required for Rove, Miers Testimony
Senate Panel Reaches Terms For CIA Detention Coverup -- IRS Gives the Boot to Private Tax Collectors -- Spending Bill Stalls in Senate, 1 Vote Shy of Breaking Filibuster -- Yesterday Markets Fall -- Senate Bill Seeks $500 Billion for FDIC Fund -- Canadian asks border agent to say 'please,' gets pepper spray instead -- Why I Reject The Libertarian Party - by Christine Smith -- Deutsche Bank sees risk of US GDP falling 10% in Q1 -- Ron Paul 03/04: The end of the war in Iraq is not near! -- Sheriff files lawsuit over Craigslist's red-light district -- Airlines that break emission rules could have planes seized -- Albany Takes Step to Repeal ’70s-Era Drug Laws -- Texas Legislature Considers Fine-Only Penalties For Marijuana -- $50 million suit filed over BART shooting death -- President Tells Unions Organizing Act Will Pass -- US soldiers who will no longer fight -- Is the U.S. Closer to Universal Health Care? -- Ron Paul: 'Pretty sad' that Limbaugh is GOP leader -- Warren Buffett and Janet Tavakoli Reveal Biggest Ponzi Scheme of All -- Are Credit Default Swaps Being Used to Destroy General Electric? -- Blue Chip Penny Stocks -- Ron Paul on Bloomberg TV 3/3/09 -- Demand Senate Keep E-Verify Out of Appropriations Bill! -- Two-Thirds of Chinese Economists Favor Gold Over US Bonds -- Geithner: Obama Admin. Will Ensure Bank Funding Access to Avoid Collapse -- NO MORE ATTORNEYS PLEASE! by Walter J. Burien -- ‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stock Markets Resume Slide After US Rout
03-05-2009
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NY Times
Asian stock markets resumed their downward slide Friday after Wall Street fell to its lowest levels in more than 12 years amid deepening fears about the future of General Motors Corp. and major financial companies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan Supply Chain a Weak Point
03-05-2009
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Washingtonn Post
The U.S. military is laboring to shore up a vulnerable supply chain through Pakistan and Central Asia as it seeks to expand the flow of supplies into Afghanistan by at least 50 percent to support an influx of tens of thousands of troops, according to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Panel Reaches Terms For CIA Detention Coverup
03-05-2009
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Washington Post
The Senate intelligence committee reached an agreement on the framework of a wide-ranging review of the CIA's past treatment of terrorism detainees, even as members acknowledged the bulk of the panel's work will be conducted in secret.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Gives the Boot to Private Tax Collectors
03-05-2009
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Washington Post
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman announced he is killing the program. "I believe this work is best done by IRS employees," he said. The IRS plans to hire 1,000 new collection personnel this year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Spending Bill Stalls in Senate, 1 Vote Shy of Breaking Filibuster
03-05-2009
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Washington Post
The Senate stalled action on a $410 billion spending bill that would fund much of the federal government for the current fiscal year amid resistance over the legislation's huge price tag and more than 8,500 pet projects.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Domesticated horses dated to 5,500 years ago
03-05-2009
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LiveScience
People and horses have trekked together through at least 5,500 years of history. New evidence, found in Kazakhstan, indicates the Botai culture used horses as beasts of burden -- and as a source of meat and milk -- about 1,000 years earlier than had
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
After Slight Return, Markets Stumble
03-05-2009
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Washington Post
U.S. stock markets plunged 4 percent yesterday as bank shares faltered and auditors for General Motors, the biggest U.S. automaker, warned that the company might not be financially viable.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
No Oath Required for Rove, Miers Testimony
03-05-2009
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BradBlog.com
Given the questions concerning whether or not Karl Rove and Harriet Miers will be required to testify under oath as part of their agreement to give "transcribed depositions under penalty of perjury"
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Senate Bill Seeks $500 Billion for FDIC Fund
03-05-2009
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online.wsj.com/
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is moving to allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Canadian asks border agent to say 'please,' gets pepper spray instead
03-05-2009
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The Bellingham Herald
A Canadian man got a faceful of pepper spray at the Pacific Highway border crossing Monday, March 2, because, he says, he insisted that a border inspector say "please."
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Science
ALERT! ALERT! Pure WEAPONIZED LIVE H5N1 Flu Virus put into flu shots by Baxter.
03-02-2009
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prisonplanet.com
Health expert Mike Adams points out, “The shocking answer is that this couldn’t have been an accident." This has received ZERO coverage in the US media.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Deutsche Bank sees risk of U.S. GDP falling 10 pct in Q1
03-05-2009
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Reuters.com/
Deutsche Bank predicted there are risks that the U.S. economy could contract by as much as 10 percent in the first quarter, given the relentless wave of dismal economic data being reported in early 2009.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Ron Paul 03/04: The end of the war in Iraq is not near!
03-05-2009
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Youtube
Ron Paul uses his five minutes on the House floor to expose the so call "withdraw of troops from Iraq."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Sheriff files lawsuit over Craigslist's red-light district
03-05-2009
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ARS Technica
The Cook County Sheriff's Dept is asking a federal judge to close the Erotic Services section of Craigslist, as well as reimburse the dept $100,000 it has cost to pursue Craigslist-related prostitution investigations over the past year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Airlines that break emission rules could have planes seized
03-05-2009
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The Guardian
The (UK) Environment Agency is to be given powers to seize planes from airlines which break the rules of a new scheme to limit flights' carbon emissions. The transport secretary and the climate change secretary's plan goes far wider than its
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Albany Takes Step to Repeal ’70s-Era Drug Laws
03-05-2009
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NY Times
The State Legislature took pivotal steps on Wednesday toward repealing much of what remains of the state’s 1970s-era drug laws, which have tied judges’ hands and required them to impose mandatory prison terms for many nonviolent drug offenses.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Texas Legislature Considers Fine-Only Penalties For Marijuana
03-05-2009
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NORML
HB 902 seeks to amend minor marijuana possession penalties to a Class C misdemeanor -- punishable by a maximum fine of $500, but no jail time. Under current law, marijuana possession is punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2000 fine.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
$50 million suit filed over BART shooting death
03-05-2009
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San Francisco Chronicle
Family members of Oscar Grant, the unarmed BART rider shot to death by a transit agency police officer early New Year's Day, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks $50 million from the agency, its chief of police and three officers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
President Tells Unions Organizing Act Will Pass
03-05-2009
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Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders Tuesday in a videotaped address that the controversial Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his full backing for legislation that makes union organizing easier.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The US soldiers who will no longer fight
03-05-2009
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BBC News
Hundreds of US armed forces personnel have applied for conscientious objector status since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 - and military rights campaigners say the number is growing.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
'Major League, Middle Class Anxiety': Is the U.S. Closer to Universal Health Care?
03-05-2009
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Wharton School
Forget about what happened last time health reform was high on a new president's agenda. Under the Obama administration, health reform is coming, the panelists said, and in fact, it's already begun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economic Stimulus
Frank Monstrosities
03-05-2009
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Mish
Frank Monstrosities
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/frank-monstrosities.html
Barney Frank is in the news. As is typically the case with "Frank News", Barney is throwing stones in the wrong direction. Please consider Fra
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Mike Shedlock
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News Link • TERRORISM
World News Covers Purposeful Avian Flu Vaccine Contamination
03-05-2009
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Google News
But not a word of it here in the USSA. Even Canada has a piece. This is real.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Ron Paul: 'Pretty sad' that Limbaugh is GOP leader
03-05-2009
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Rawstory
“He is a leader. He does say the right things now and I think a lot of people like to hear what he’s saying but I think it’s also a little bit polarizing and confrontational and I think that’s why the Democrats are bragging that Limbaugh now speaks f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Warren Buffett and Janet Tavakoli Reveal Biggest Ponzi Scheme of All
03-05-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Tavakoli: It was a massive Ponzi scheme with many players involved. At times you’d have the CDO manager, an investment bank and a hedge fund involved, all of them knowing they were doing the wrong thing.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are Credit Default Swaps Being Used to Destroy General Electric?
03-05-2009
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/
This so-called "market segment" (CDS) has become so ridiculously overlevered, unsupervised and able to cause failures that it is now within days or even hours of CAUSING GE to fail - not due to GE's own internal problems...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Demand Senate Keep E-Verify Out of Appropriations Bill!
03-05-2009
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American Policy Center
The truth is E-Verify is another part of the REAL ID international identity card scam. First, you will have to ask the federal government for the right to work by using E-Verify to get a job, then you carry REAL ID as your key to society
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul on Bloomberg TV -- 3/3/09
03-05-2009
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Youtube
It's immoral to transfer wealth from the productive to the non-productive members of society. The stimulus and the bailouts will only make the problem worse. Government needs to get out of the way and let the market sort itself out.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Take a Look at the Sacramento, California 'Obamaville'
03-05-2009
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MSNBC.msn.com
We have seen this trend grow over the last 18 months but I fear camps of homeless people will explode over the next 180 days. The problem lies in the fact that these people will be our friends and neighbors...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
Survey: Over Two-Thirds of Chinese Economists Favor Gold Over US Bonds
03-05-2009
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com
All this is against a backdrop of China surpassing Japan to become America's largest US bond holder and of the ever-widening global financial kerfuffle.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner: Obama Admin. Will Ensure Bank Funding Access to Avoid Collapse
03-05-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Congress will be consulted as the administration decides to seek new money, Geithner said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Corn Gene Doubling Produces Giant Biomass
03-05-2009
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arclein
Combined with the report today on the advance on using xylose, we see the ingredient for an emergent corn cellulose to biofuel industry that will have a low producer cost base and ample developed land to grow on.
We have never focused on maximizin
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Xylose Enzyme Discovered
03-05-2009
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arclein
The new enzyme was taken from the bacterial organism and inserted into yeast cells that were retrieved from a commercial ethanol plant. “With just a minor effort, we were able to teach the yeast cells how to ferment the xylose into ethanol,”
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robert klein
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News Link • Corruption
NO MORE ATTORNEYS PLEASE! by Walter J. Burien
03-05-2009
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cafr1.com
The problem is the politicians but the core under the cover problem with politicians is over 60% of the congressman, senators, and governors are now attorneys.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Conspiracies
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible
03-05-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.
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Jack Gregson
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