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Date Sent: 2009-10-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, October 6, 2009 PM edition |
Gold hits record at $1,045, gains on dollar's demise -- The Plot to End Global Dollar Dominance
Australia central bank raises rates, more expected -- Gates blames past lack of troops for Taliban edge -- US blames elite Iranian unit for Afghanistan losses -- Arizona School Closes With Flu Outbreak (H1N1 Confirmed) -- There's no such thing as too big to fail in a free market -- Oil SDR Pricing Shift Would Be "Most Damaging" To USA -- Max Keiser On The Death Of The US Dollar, Middle Class And Overall Economy -- The Final Nail - by Dave Hodges -- Crude futures rise above $71 a barrel as dollar weakens -- Court: Fed won't have to immediately disclose lending details -- The Great Swine Flu Boondoggle --
Rangel rakes in cash from island rum scrum -- Dodd 'reforms' harm the
prudent -- Fed Should Release Borrowers’ Names, Bloomberg Says -- LRADs: Another Step Toward a Police State -- FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case
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News Link • Currencies
Gold hits record at $1,045, gains on report of dollar's demise
10-06-2009
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Market Watch
Gold futures hit a new high on Tuesday, lifted by weakness in the dollar after Australia hiked interest rates and after a report that Gulf-area oil producers, along with China, Russia, Japan and France, are planning to eventually end dollar-based oil
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News Link • Currencies
Hot: The Plot to End Global Dollar Dominance
10-06-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
The destruction of the dollar as the international reserve currency, as I have regularly stated, could happen at anytime. New developments suggest it may happen sooner rather than later
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News Link • Economy - International
Australia central bank raises rates, more expected
10-06-2009
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Reuters
Australia's central bank raised its key cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent on Tuesday and heralded more to come, saying it was safe to row-back on stimulus now that the worst danger for the economy had passed.
The Australian dollar jumpe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Gates blames past lack of troops for Taliban edge
10-06-2009
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Reuters
Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review.
"We are not leaving Afgha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
When Cops Play Doctor: How the drug war punishes pain patients
10-06-2009
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Reason
But maybe the real epidemic is underdosing. Countless Americans suffer with severe chronic pain because doctors are afraid to treat them properly
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US blames elite Iranian unit for Afghanistan losses
10-06-2009
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Reuters
The United States believes Iran's Revolutionary Guards are providing training and weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan to help them fight Western forces, U.S. counterterrorism officials said on Monday.
The alleged role played by the Revolu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Goldman, influence intact, lets one well run dry
10-06-2009
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Reuters
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), legendary for its clout in Washington, has inexplicably halted its political fund-raising machine.
The strange twist comes at a time when Wall Street's biggest and most powerful investment bank, nicknamed Government
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Oil states say no talks on replacing dollar
10-06-2009
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Reuters
Big oil producing nations denied a British newspaper report on Tuesday that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil.
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News Link • Energy
Weak dollar, strong stock market push oil higher
10-06-2009
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AP
Oil prices climbed Tuesday as the combination of a weaker dollar and stronger stock market outweighed concerns about weak demand and vast supplies of crude.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold sets record high above $1,040 per ounce
10-06-2009
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Reuters
Gold surged to a record high above $1,040/ ounce, fueled by a steadily falling US currency, which prompted investors to buy gold as a hedge against dollar-denominated portfolios. Spot gold hit a historic $1,043.45/ ounce
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News Link • Immigration
Sharp Rise in Chinese Arrests at U.S. Border
10-06-2009
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L.A.Times via Rense.com
Nogales, Ariz. Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the southern Arizona desert.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Climate Change
LIGHT BULBS VS. THE NANNY STATE’: REASONTV ILLUMINATES THE CFL PUSH
10-06-2009
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You Tube
ReasonTV: Invented in its modern form by Thomas Edison in 1879, the light bulb became synonymous with a brilliant idea. Now, it seems, it's just one more symbol of a nanny state that increasingly dictates more choices in our public and private liv
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
STUDY: JOBS WON’T RECOVER UNTIL 2017
10-06-2009
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Breitbart
Rutgers: Erasing this deficit will require substantial and sustained employment growth. Even if the nation could add 2.15 million private-sector jobs per year starting in January 2010, it would need to maintain this pace for more than 7 straight y
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona School Closes With Flu Outbreak (H1N1 Confirmed)
10-06-2009
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AP via Breitbart via Drudgereport
HUACHUCA CITY, Ariz. (AP) - Health officials suspect an outbreak of swine flu has caused an Arizona school to shut down after more than a third of the students called in sick.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Swiss Reject Polanski Appeal Over Arrest
10-06-2009
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ABC
Swiss authorities rejected on Tuesday an appeal by lawyers for Roman Polanski, arrested in September after fleeing America in 1978 from an underage sex charge, to release the film director from prison.
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News Link • Economy - International
There's no such thing as too big to fail in a free market
10-06-2009
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Telegraph
The collapse of a financial institution is not necessarily a disaster. If free markets are to thrive, we must not allow giant, state-supported banks to believe that they are indestructible
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Confidential Memos Indicate Oil SDR Pricing Shift Would Be "Most Damaging" To United State
10-06-2009
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Zero Hedge
A recently declassified, formerly Confidential, 30 year old memo prepared by Henry Owen for President Jimmy Carter's eyes only, highlights the perils facing the United States if oil were to be priced in SDRs instead of dollars, a topic which is all t
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News Link • Currencies
Max Keiser On The Death Of The US Dollar, Middle Class And Overall Economy
10-06-2009
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Zero Hedge
Lots of speculation today about the upcoming death of the U.S. currency, middle class, and by implication, its entire economy, as gold hits all time highs. Max Keiser joins the fray:
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
The Final Nail
10-06-2009
Dave Hodges
Many prominent nations have declared an economic jihad against the United States as what appears to be the final nail in America’s economic coffin. This devastating action was driven by the Gulf Arabs, China, Russia, Japan and France as these nations
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News Link • Energy
Crude futures rise above $71 a barrel as dollar weakens
10-06-2009
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Marketwatch
Crude-oil futures rose above $71 a barrel Tuesday, adding more than 2% as part of a broad commodities rally arising from the latest tumble in the dollar.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed won't have to immediately disclose lending details
Federal Appeals court grants central ban
10-06-2009
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Marketwatch
The Federal Reserve won't have to disclose details of its emergency financial crisis lending programs immediately after an appeals court on Tuesday approved the central bank's appeal to suspend a lower court ruling requiring such disclosure pending r
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News Link • New World Order
The Great Swine Flu Boondoggle
10-05-2009
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Personal Liberty Digest
The so-called great Swine flu pandemic is nothing more than a One World Government power grab, an effort at population control and a boondoggle designed to enrich big Pharma and its supporters.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Reality Strikes In Retail?
10-06-2009
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The Market Ticker
The National Retail Federation threw some cold water on the holiday:WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Retail Federation today released its 2009 holiday forecast, projecting holiday retail industry sales to decline one percent this year to $43
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News Link • Media: Internet
ICN Informed Citizen News 10/04/09
10-06-2009
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You Tube
The news you should have heard this week, but didn't.
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News Link • Corruption
Rangel rakes in cash from island rum scrum
10-06-2009
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Washington Times
The outcome of a legislative tussle over rum taxes between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands remains in doubt, but there is already one clear winner - the House's top tax writer, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who is pocketing camp
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
Today... Another Day to Watch
Ernest Hancock
Gold now over $1200. Does $1500 look so far away now? Look for more talk of "Bank Holidays" and new currency and civil unrest and hunger and... solutions that people come up with for themselves... and governments will not be consulted.
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Dodd 'reforms' harm the prudent
10-06-2009
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The Republican-American
What does Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd have against hard-working Americans who live up to the standards that made America great? For many years, Sen. Dodd pushed policies and mandates that forced lenders to write mortgages for people who because
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Kebony Wood
10-06-2009
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arclein
One way out of this problem would be an environmentally friendly way of making softwood harder and more durableâ€"something that a Norwegian company called Kebony has now achieved. It opened its first factory in January.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphene Sensing Tool
10-06-2009
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arclein
Researchers at Columbia University in New York have made the first electrical-readout nanomechanical resonators made from graphene. The devices, which consist of vibrating sheets of graphene suspended over micron-sized trenches, could be used as high
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Should Release Borrowers’ Names, Bloomberg Says
10-05-2009
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Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve should be forced to identify companies that received loans from the central bank because it can’t demonstrate that borrowers would be harmed by the disclosure, according to lawyers who won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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News Link • Police State
VIDEO: ABC's Diane Sawyer on Sibel Edmonds, FBI Whistleblower, First Amendment 'Heroine'
10-05-2009
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BradBlog.com
Diane Sawyer narrates the story of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds as she was awarded the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award.
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News Link • Police State
LRADs: Another Step Toward a Police State
10/05/09
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John Birch Society
Thanks to Department of Homeland Security grants, local police departments around the country are ordering these devices, and they have already been used at some of last summer’s more spirited town-hall meetings on health care. According to the manuf
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Police State
FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case
10-05-2009
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BradBlog.com
Details panic inside the Bureau, executive effort to 'keep this whole thing quiet' when matter first came to light in 2002 - Further confirms FBI translator/whistleblower's allegations, credibility...
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