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Date Sent: 2009-08-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, August 12, 2009 AM edition |
Judge refuses BofA, SEC bonus pact -- Credit tightening threatens China's 'giant Ponzi scheme'
Industrial Hemp Farming Act HR 1866 -- S&P downgrades Baltic States' Debt Ratings -- Corruption Beneath The Surface -- N. Korean Ship Searched for Radioactive Material -- Internet Security: Obama's 'Cookies' Breaking the Law -- Chris Matthews Gets Spanked By Gun-Toting New Hampshire Patriot -- The Coming Civil War -- After cutting dealerships, Chrysler signs new ones -- SC Gov Defends Using State Plane for Family Trips
-- Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census -- Preliminary
Injunction to Halt Mandatory Flu Vaccination in the US Has Been Issued
-- Obama Says: North America Union needs 'aggressive action' -- Was Goldman Sachs Tipped Off About the Unemployment Number in Advance?
OK: Freedom21 National Conference Starts Thursday (live online too); WY; Wyoming Liberty Fest Aug 21 - 23 (see Letter to Editor)
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News Link • Obama Administration
US judge will not sign off on BofA, SEC bonus pact
08-11-2009
A week after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it
had settled the matter, Judge Rakoff questioned whether the $33
million agreement with Bank of America was adequate. He refused to
approve the deal, saying too many questions remained unanswered,
including who knew what and when about the controversial payouts.
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News Link • China
Credit tightening threatens China's 'giant Ponzi scheme'
08/11/2009
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Telegraph
The data raise fresh doubts about the strength of global trade and whether the world can rely on China's growth miracle to power recovery.
Separately, the Baltic Dry Index " measuring freight rates for bulk goods " has tipped over, dropping 25pc since late July. The shipping figures buttress reports that China has stopped building up stocks of metals and other commodities after a spate of frantic buying over the early summer.
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News Link • United Nations
Will Americans follow orders to take flu shots?
8/11/09
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Worldnet Daily
Alarmist language over possible outbreaks of swine flu as well as a series of moves by the federal government are fueling fears federal agents will soon be forcing citizens to be vaccinated " prompting one political party to launch a pre-emptive defense against any such effort.
The Constitution Party, a fast-growing alternative to the dominant Democratic and Republican parties in many elections, has come out strongly in opposition to any "mandatory injections" of "potential toxic (H1N1) 'swine flu' vaccine."
Citing the Fourth Amendment, which says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons … shall not be violated," Constitution Party National Committee Chairman Jim Clymer said the issue isn't that complex. ...
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News Link • B.O.R.G.
Industrial Hemp Farming Act HR 1866
08-11-2009
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www.votehemp.com
[Hemp being "against the law" is more stupid than the Federal Reserve Ed] The
Industrial Hemp Farming Act has been introduced two times previously, in the
109th and 110th Congress. It has never received a committee hearing before. In
this, the 111th Congress, H.R. 1866, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009,
has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee
on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Committee
members
are from California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia. If you are in their district it is especially important that you
write to them and ask for their support by co-sponsoring H.R. 1866 and working
to get a hearing for the bill.
We already have the support of companies that produce hemp products that
would be able to present testimony before a committee in Congress. Your letters
will help us get a hearing for the bill.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
When worlds collide
08-11-2009
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Discover magazine
The Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs
of an interplanetary smashup, and oh, what a colossal event it was…
apparently, 100 light years away around the young star HD 172555, an object the size of the Moon slammed into a planet the size of Mercury!
First, the way cool animation they created portraying the event:
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Giant 'meat-eating' plant found
08-11-2009
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BBC News
A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.
The
pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that
it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Supercritical fluids used to create 3 nanometer wiring
08-11-2009
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ARS Technica
Using supercritical fluids, researchers in the UK deposited 3nm copper wiring by infiltrating the fluid into porous SiO2.
While commercial deployment depends on next-generation patterning
methods, the process is highly extensible and scalable, making it a
prime candidate for future device fabrication.
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News Link • Events: America
When Furries Attack: The Furry Convention descends on downtown Denver
08-11-2009
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Westword
Furries -- members of the strange but strangely endearing "furry fandom" -- gathered in Denver over the weekend for one of the dozens of furry conventions
that take place throughout the world each year, at which furries get
together in their animal costumes and do stuff. Among other activities
over the weekend, the furries had a parade. These are pictures of that
parade. I suspect they don't quite capture the weirdness of the scene
downtown on Saturday, but judge for yourself after the jump. Photos by
the aptly named Anthony Camera.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama law tab up to $1.4 mil 'Grassroots army' contributions being used to crush eligibility
8/10/09
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Worldnet Daily
President Obama may be using his political action committee funds to stomp out eligibility lawsuits brought by Americans, as he has paid more than $1.35 million to his top lawyer since the election.
Obama for America, Obama's 2008 political campaign, merged with the Democratic National Committee in January and is now known as Organizing for America. The grassroots army that some refer to as "Obama 2.0" is still collecting financial contributions.
Federal Election Commission records for "Obama for America" show that the lobby organization has paid international law firm Perkins Coie exactly $1,352,378.95 since the 2008 election.
FEC records show the following payments made to the law firm from Oct. 16, 2008, to June 30, 2009: More....
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News Link • Internet
Google Voice and you: what it is and how you can use it
08-11-2009
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ARS Technica
Have you been hearing all the chatter about Google Voice but still
haven't caught up on what it is? Ars gives you the rundown on Google's
calling service and how you can use it to screen and forward calls,
send free SMSs, and even get your voicemails transcribed and sent to
your inbox.
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News Link • Economy - International
S&P downgrades Baltic States' Debt Ratings
08-11-2009
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Telegraph
Standards & Poor's, the credit-rating agency, cut Latvia's rating to "BB" and warned that its economy will contract by a further 16% this year. The public debt will vault from 19% of GDP last year to 80% by 2011.
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News Link • Corruption
Corruption Beneath The Surface
08-11-2009
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Now Public
On Aug 8,2009, Sibel Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous crimes and corruption involving current and former members of Congress and State and Defense Dept officials.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Pain of Being a Redhead
08-11-2009
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NY Times
A growing body of research shows that people with red hair need larger
doses of anesthesia and often are resistant to local pain blockers like
Novocaine. As a result, redheads tend to be particularly nervous about
dental procedures and are twice as likely to avoid going to the dentist
as people with other hair colors.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists create miniature machine parts from DNA
08-11-2009
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The Guardian
As well as being able to hold vast amounts of information, DNA is tough
and flexible, making it an attractive candidate for use as a
nanomaterial. Advances in molecular biology in recent decades have
meant that scientists are well equipped to work with DNA and program it
to do whatever they want.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Human genome now sequenced for the price of a car
08-11-2009
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AFP
Sequencing the first human genome cost billions and required an army of scientists. 8 years later a trio of researchers in the
US have matched that feat for the price mid-range BMW.
“This can be done in one lab, with one machine, and at a modest cost” of about $50,000, said
Stanford
University professor Stephen Quake, who designed the study and lent his DNA for the task.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
NASA wants proposals for space taxis
08-11-2009
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Reuters
NASA plans to use $50 million of federal economic stimulus funds to
seed development of commercial passenger transportation service to
space, agency officials said on Monday.
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News Link • World News
N. Korean Ship Searched for Radioactive Material
08-11-2009
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NY Times
The cargo ship, M V San, was spotted Friday, officials said, and detained under the authority of the United Nations resolution passed after North Korea tested a nuclear device in May. The
ship anchored without authorization in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
a territory of India in the Bay of Bengal, last week, according to the
Indian military.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Rear-Projection Urinal Lets You Pee Over Football Games or Bill O'Reilly
08-11-2009
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Gizmoto
A pub in Melbourne came up with what potentially could be the best and
wrongest multimedia device ever invented: A urinal with a rear
projector, so you don't miss a single second of a game when you have to
pee.
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News Link • Internet
Internet Security"Obama's 'Cookies' Breaking the Law
08/11/2009
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You Tube
Installing cookies on your computer following all the sites you visit wait until you watch this video! FACIST big BRO has arrived!
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News Link • Activism
Chris Matthews Gets Spanked By Gun-Toting New Hampshire Patriot
08-11-09
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You Tube
A Tea Party protester in New Hampshire caused a major wetting of the lamestream media's collective panties when he simultaneously exercised his First and Second Amendment rights. Despite Matthews' best attempts to paint Patriot William Kostric as a domestic terrorist, Kostric slammed Matthews' pathetic loaded questions right back in his face and got the freedom message across loudly and clearly. Even Ron Paul was proudly mentioned in the discussion, and unlike Obama, Ron Paul has never been afraid of having a face-to-face conversation with an armed citizen. (And I speak from personal experience.)
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News Link • Healthcare
Fact-checking Obama on Healthcare
08/11/2009
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Newsmax
Several statements that President Barack Obama made at his town hall meeting at Portsmouth High School in New Hampshire on Tuesday merit closer inspection.
Among them:
Nobody will lose their current plan:
Obama objects to special interests:
Obama on prescription drugs:
Obama spins 'public option'
Obama promises reform won't increase the deficit
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
CHART OF THE DAY: Fiscal Meltdown!
08/11/2009
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The Business Insider
Hopefully deficits don't matter, because if they do, then boy are we screwed. Today's chart was put together by Diapason Securities analyst Sean Corrigan (via Alphaville), and it shows the stunning rise of outlays and similar collapse in receipts. The blue line is the real killer, though, as it shows just how meager our tax revenue is compared to outlays.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Soaring deficit may defy forecasts
08/11/2009
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USA Today
stagnant unemployment, shrinking tax revenue and a struggling economy threaten to quadruple the size of last year's federal budget deficit, raising more questions about the timing of costly proposals to overhaul health care.
As the White House and Congressional Budget Office (CBO) prepare to release new deficit estimates this month, several economists say the news is likely to be as bad as or worse than forecasts.
"This is going to be a very depressing outlook," predicts former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, top adviser to Republican John McCain in last year's presidential election. "They have just a nightmare in terms of these health care bills, which do nothing but make things worse."
A fiscal year 2009 deficit of $1.8 trillion was anticipated by the White House, $1.7 trillion by Congress. Reaching that level would produce a deficit four times last year's $459 billion deficit, just as Congress is considering health care overhaul plans that could
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Riot signals: 1.9 million foreclosures, 14.5 million people unemployed and 1.5M jobless will lose be
08/11/2009
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Investment Watch
“I don’t think we are going to see a recovery until 2010. It’s possible the economy can bottom sometime in the fall or the winter, but it will be pretty rough sailing ahead, especially for the next quarter or two,” said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners in Greenwich Connecticut.
In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in America.
“There will be a revolution in this country,” he said. “It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen.”
“The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That’s going to be the big one because people can’t afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax. You’re going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop.”
“It’s going to be very b
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News Link • Healthcare
Video: Protect American Healthcare
8/03/09
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Youtube
Ad to protect American healthcare paid for by The League of American Voters. Donate to have this ad air across America.
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News Link • General Opinion
Migrant Mexican farm workers vote to quit union
08/11/2009
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CBC
Migrant Mexican farm workers in Manitoba " the first in Canada to join a union " have now voted to decertify.
The farm employees have decided they would rather not be part of the United Food and Commercial Workers union because they can make more money working longer hours, without mandatory overtime pay, which they say caused employers to cut back on their hours.
Heladio Martinez-Perez is a foreman at a farm west of Winnipeg. He said under the collective agreement the workers negotiated two years ago, they could not work more than 70 hours weekly.
"Today, we're gonna start at 6 o'clock and maybe finish at 8. That is a big difference, the union and not the union. We don't need overtime or $1 extra per hour when we can make more hours. That is a good thing for everybody."
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Obama Machine has just switched into high gear.
8/11/09
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Campaign for Liberty
1) Despite the mobilization of the anti-obamacare movement in all of the recent townhall meetings, there didn't seem to be ANY TRACE of the movement in this one.
2)The President repeatedly called out the movement by saying he was going to address the "wild misrepresentations" and "scare tactics" employed by special interests that are trying to "scare and mislead the American people". I didn't see anyone stepping up.
3) In reference to #2, the only "tough" question to be asked was by a LITTLE GIRL who referrenced the people OUTSIDE who had anti-obamacare signs. The President was clear in his response that these people were trying to "create boogiemen" and "profit from the status quo". Hmmm. That's so weird!
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News Link • Corruption
After cutting stores, Chrysler signs new ones
08/11/2009
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Auto News
Obviously the old ones did not pay to play the chi town way!!
Chrysler's sudden firing of 789 dealerships was more than a strategy to cut the store roster. The company used bankruptcy to shed dealerships it considered underperforming.
So Chrysler has begun appointing new dealers in some of the 140 open locations left behind after bankruptcy. The new dealerships anger some rejected Chrysler dealers, who lost their stores just two months ago.
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News Link • Constitution
Census to Count Illegal Immigrants, Giving Democrats More Seats in Congress
08/11/2009
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Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.
Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country"including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on.
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News Link • Constitution
The Coming Civil War (NARLO - Ron Ewart_
08/11/2009
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You Tube
A prediction of events if America stays on the path it now treads!
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Feature Article • Activism
Man with gun in NH holding sign. MSNBC flips out.
Found Zero
How can they possibly let this happen? What's wrong with the
state of New Hampshire? They are just gonna let that guy stand there? No Gitmo,
no tasers, no gang-tackle? Carlos Watson
reporting there is a crowd forming in Portsmouth, New Hampshire awaiting the arrival
of President Obama with one man, William Kostric, carrying a gun in a holster strapped to his leg. The people
are attending a town hall meeting where president Obama will be speaking. Things are peaceful in front of the high
school. The Chief of Police was been contacted;
he said it is legal for him to have a gun as long as it is registered and not
concealed. The man with the gun is
holding a sign that says “Time to Water the Tree of Liberty”.
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News Link • Corruption
SC Gov Defends Using State Plane for Family Trips
08-11-2009
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AP
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford justified his use of state
planes for personal trips in which he often brought along his wife and
four sons, saying his taxpayer-funded travel was no different than that
of his predecessors.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Huckabee exposed as New World Order Puppet
08-11-2009
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National Expositor
Mike Huckabee named Richard Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on foreign policy. So what does Richard Haas believe in? Here's an article below which was written by Haas for the Tapei Times. It basically states the Bill of Rights and Constitution should be given up in favor of a cooperative world body run by elite consensus.
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News Link • Healthcare
Preliminary Injunction to Halt Mandatory Flu Vaccination in the U.S. Has Been Issued
08-11-2009
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Barbara L. Minton
Preliminary Injunction to stop mandatory vaccinations has been issued in the United States District Court of New Jersey. This comes after a federal lawsuit opposing forced vaccines was filed in that court by Tim Vawter, pro se attorney, on July 31st with the federal government as defendant.
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News Link • Constitution
Illegals Will be Counted in the U.S. Census
08/11/2009
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Newsmax
California could get nine House seats it doesn’t constitutionally rate because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010, concluded an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal.
The forthcoming census, which determines the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state, will be counting all persons physically present in the country -- without regard to the legality of their status.
Set for big gains thanks to illegal populations is not only California but Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas, according to the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey data.
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News Link • North American Union
Obama Says: North America Union needs ‘aggressive action’
08-11-2009
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USA Today
Noting the huge trading partnership among the three neighbors, Obama said that commerce must be expanded, not restricted.
Wrapping
up a North American summit Monday afternoon, Obama joined Mexican
President Felipe Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Politics on the Rocks event with Senator John McCain - Aug. 25
08-11-2009
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Sonoran Alliance
Politics on the Rocks is proud to announce that Senator John McCain will be speaking at our free networking event on Tuesday, August 25th 5:30-7:30 PM at the elegant Intercontinental Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley. Senator McCain will be speaking on several issues facing our country and will have a question and answer session at the end. Again, guests may attend free of charge.
Sincerely,
Politics on the Rocks
www.PoliticsontheRocks.com
P.S. Senator McCain’s 2010 Senate campaign will host a separate, private fundraising reception at the Intercontinental Montelucia Resort & Spa before Senator McCain speaks at the Politics on the Rocks event. If you would like to attend the campaign’s private reception, please contact Sarah at sarah@friendsofjohnmccain.com or 602-284-4227.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Elizabeth Warren Wants Another Bailout
08/11/2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Comments mine Think Iceland and Socializing the Losses!
“The nation’s banks continue to hold on their books billions of dollars in assets about whose proper valuation there is a dispute and that are very difficult to sell,” said the Congressional watchdog panel headed by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren.
Warren's panel report really can't be viewed as anything but a veiled call for another bailout. It urged the Treasury to either expand its current program to soak up troubled assets, the Public-Private Investment Program, “or consider a different strategy.”
Since Warren believes in government regulation starting with how you tie your shoes in the morning, the thought of she means by a "different strategy,” should cause any liberty loving person to shudder. For her a reasonable solution would be nationalization of banks she deems to be operating with insufficient capital
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News Link • Corruption
Front Running Tips From the President
08/11/2009
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Economic Policy Journal
It pays to pay close attention to what the President says, it can mean money in your pocket. John Crudele explains:
President Obama tipped the world off to the Friday [jobs] number well ahead of time.
But the president appears to have helped people who weren't in that crowd break the laws against insider trading.
The White House and the Treasury Department get the jobs report one hour after the financial markets close on Thursday. But the rules are that these numbers are confidential, and they are supposed to stay secret for a reason.
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Just Became More Important to Search
08-11-2009
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www.webpronews.com/
Real-Time Search Competition Heating Up
Facebook
has begun rolling out a new version of its search feature, which it
began testing with a select few last month. Of course, this would be
real-time search, in the company's latest effort to move into Twitter territory. The announcement of Facebook's real-time search comes hot off the heels of their big announcement about the acquisition of FriendFeed, which comes with a pretty nifty real-time search engine of its own. But that's a different story.
Interestingly enough, Google's got its own project
in the works that looks to have some real-time search implications. The
company has announced a search update called "Caffeine," which among
other things is aimed at indexing content faster. "It's the first step
in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed,
accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions," says Google's
Webmaster Central team.&nbs
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Was Goldman Sachs Tipped Off About the Unemployment Number in Advance?
08/11/2009
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Economic Policy Journal
John Crudele is justifiably suspicious. He writes:
Another curious thing happened before the employment report was made public.
Sometime before late afternoon Thursday, Goldman Sachs suddenly broke with the Wall Street pack that was predicting a loss of 320,000 or so jobs in July.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Radical Left: Pelosi, Krugman and Matthews Are Wrong
08/11/2009
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Economic Policy Journal
One further point that came out of the left wing panel discussion here at tht ASA conference in San Francisco was that to a man Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, George Goehl of the National People's Action Network, Gabe Gonzales of the Center for Community Change and Matt Hammer of the People Acting in Community were not buying into the claims that the protests going on against the healthcare plan were staged or because Obama is black.
None of them believe Nancy Pelosi's claim that the protests are orchestrated.
None of them buy into Krugman's statement that ..they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.
That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the sa
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