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Date Sent: 2009-05-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 12, 2009 PM edition |
Social Security/Medicare finances worsen -- GM shares fall to 76-year low after execs dump stock
U.S. ships must post guards if sailing off Somalia -- Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve? -- Marines = lab rats -- Ernest Hancock on the Infowarrior With Jason Bermis -- Miss California and Liberal Babeophobia -- Black Ministers Arrested on National Day of Prayer -- Home Prices in U.S. Drop Most on Record in 1st Quarter -- No Room for Info Warriors in YouTube’s Hulu-ized Universe -- Video: They’re Shutting Detroit Down -- Lawsuit to Ban All Electronic Voting Heads for Jury Trial
GA: Protest Today against Mexico’s former President & NWO Vicente Fox; AZ: Operation ObamASU underway, Anti War Activist March tomorrow; National Rifle Association convention in Phoenix this weekend
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security and Medicare finances worsen
05-12-2009
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AP
The financial health of the government's two biggest benefit programs may have slipped over the past year, reflecting the deep recession that has already bitten into other areas of the budget.
The trustees for Social Security and Medicare are
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
U.S. ships must post guards if sailing off Somalia
05-12-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. Coast Guard will require U.S.-flagged ships sailing around the Horn of Africa to post guards and ship owners to submit anti-piracy security plans for approval, a Coast Guard official said. [Blackwater to the rescue.]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
Freedoms Phoenix's Own Ernest Hancock on the Infowarrior With Jason Bermis
05-12-2009
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PrisonPlanet.tv
A great interview updating Operation ASU and the other events we have happening here in Phoenix. Note: Ernie's interview is not listed on the liner notes for the show on 5/11/09.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Corruption
Fed Dread
05-12-2009
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Slate.com
Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer says that the New York Fed is the most powerful financial institution you've probably never heard of.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Nick Coons to Speak at "Politics on the Rocks" in Scottsdale This Thursday
05-12-2009
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Nick Coons himself!
This Thursday, May 14th, I'll be speaking at the networking event "Politics on the Rocks", previously known as the "Republican Professionals." This will be my first live public speaking engagement for my congressional campaign
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve? (Amazing Congressional Hearing Video)
05-12-2009
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YouTube
Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Marriage
Miss California and Liberal Babeophobia
05-12-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Even though her views on same sex marriage are identical to those of their beloved Barack Obama, liberals hate Carrie Prejean. This is because female attractiveness is a real deal killer with this crowd. They denied her the Miss USA Title, and attemp
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession Is Over According to Financial Experts
5-11-09
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ABCnews.go.com/
Barry Knapp, a strategist at Barclays Capital, wrote recently that the economy appears "to be in the sweet spot of a recovery" and that the recession may have ended last month, according to Bloomberg News.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM shares fall to 76-year low after execs dump stock
05-12-2009
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Reuters
General Motors stock plunged more than 22% to a 76-year low, a day after a group of GM executives disclosed they had sold shares in the struggling automaker. GM executives disclosed they liquidated their remaining direct holdings in the automaker.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Black Ministers Arrested on National Day of Prayer
05-12-2009
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Charismamag.com
Although President Obama did not host a National Day of Prayer observance, two African-American ministers prayed outside the White House..., even though it led to their arrest.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Next Step? No Guns Allowed For Right-Wing 'Extremists'
05-12-2009
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WND via e-mail
"... Actually, we could rename this bill the Janet Napolitano Frenzied Fantasy Implementation Act of 2009."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Internet
Move over FaceBook and MySpace - OneUmbrellaForLiberty For Patriots' Social Networking!
05-12-2009
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oneumbrellaforliberty.com via e-mail
You watch - this is brand new but I forsee this as the next big thing on the horizon - and that big thing is US! Register now to get your favorite username established. I am Psychictaxi (of course!) - Ed.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jim Rogers: Dollar’s rally is set to end in a "currency crisis"
5-11-09
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Bloomberg.com
“We’re going to have a currency crisis, probably this fall or the fall of 2010,” Rogers. “It’s been building up for a long time. We’ve had a huge rally in the dollar, an artificial rally in the dollar, so it’s time for a currency crisis.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Greenspan Before and after the “credit tsunami”
05-12-2009
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Revolutionary Politics
Greenspan - “Those of us who have looked to the self interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders equity, myself especially, are in a state of shocked disbelief.”
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istvan lettang
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News Link • Housing
Home Prices in U.S. Drop Most on Record in 1st Quarter
5-12-09
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Bloomberg.com
The median price fell 14 percent to $169,000, the National Association of Realtors said today. Prices dropped in 134 of 152 metropolitan areas, with the deepest declines in Cape Coral-Ft. Myers, Florida, and the San Francisco and San Jose areas.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
No Room for Info Warriors in YouTube’s Hulu-ized Universe
5-12-09
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InfoWars.com
YouTube’s new business model is a microcosm of the brave new internet envisioned by corporations and government " not unlike corporate-dominated television, an electronic universe supporting millions of channels but with nothing of significance on.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
V-Shaped Recession: Krugman Says Rapid Recovery ‘Extremely Unlikely’
5-12-09
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Bloomberg.com
“It looks to me now as if the markets are now pricing in a rapid recovery, that they’re pricing in a V-shaped recession, which I consider extremely unlikely,” Krugman, 56, said at a forum in Shanghai today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
GM CEO: Bankruptcy Likely; Firm May Leave Detroit
5-12-09
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CNBC.com
General Motors is open to considering moving its headquarters from Detroit, selling off U.S. plants and even renegotiating parts of its restructuring plan with its major union, the new chief executive said Monday.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
WTP's Federal NCEL Lawsuit to Ban All Electronic Voting Heads for Jury Trial
05-12-2009
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We The People Foundation
The U.S. District Court in Albany, NY has ordered the first federal lawsuit ever to directly challenge the constitutional integrity of a state’s official election procedures (which are totally dependent, almost without exception, upon machine-based v
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Agriculture
System of Rice Intensification
05-12-2009
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arclein
SRI practices lead to healthier, more productive soil and plants by supporting greater root growth and by nurturing the abundance and diversity of soil organisms. The agroecological principles that contribute to SRI effectiveness have good scientific
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Best Practice Biofuels
05-12-2009
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arclein
The new study shows that burning biomass to produce electricity rather than converting it to ethanol (made from corn kernels or the other parts of the plant, so-called cellulosic ethanol) delivers 81 percent more miles per acre of transportation in e
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
Protest Today Kennesaw Ga. against Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox
05-12-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
We are calling on all PATRIOTS who love America and value their FREEDOM to meet up with other FREEDOM loving PATRIOTS to protest this enemy of America and take a stand against the North American Union.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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