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Date Sent: 2009-10-09
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 9, 2009 AM edition |
Patriot Act Extension Approved by Senate Panel -- Police stop more than 1 million people on street
House Votes to Expand Definition of Hate Crimes -- New Orleans Police Force Faces Swarm of Inquiries -- Pot legalization gains momentum in California -- NYPD tracking cell phone owners -- ACLU Says Extracting DNA From Suspects Unconstitutional -- 34 banks don't pay their quarterly TARP dividends -- HOA stripped of powers over accusations of theft and fraud -- Gold: The Canary in the Coal Mine - by Charles Goyette -- Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood -- Financial picture grows dire -- Congress' Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare
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News Link • Police State
Patriot Act Extension Is Approved by Senate Panel
10-08-2009
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Washington Post
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would renew portions of the USA Patriot Act in an effort to address administration concerns about protecting terrorism investigations.
But several Democrats and civil liberties advocates
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Police stop more than 1 million people on street
10-08-2009
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AP
These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Orleans Police Force Faces Swarm of Inquiries
10-08-2009
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NY Times
The local Fraternal Order of Police reminded New Orleans officers they had a right to be represented by a lawyer when questioned by the F.B.I., whether as a witness or as a potential target. The warning has become routine for the police over the last
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Denies Appeal for Information on Recovery.gov Contract with Smartronix
10-08-2009
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Pro Publica
We appealed the GSA’s decision, noting the administration’s commitment to transparency in general, and its promises of transparency in the stimulus in particular. We also wondered whether the arguments used to defend the redactions " especially the p
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
House Votes to Expand Definition of Hate Crimes
10-08-2009
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NY Times
The House voted Thursday to expand the definition of violent federal hate crimes to those committed because of a victim’s sexual orientation, a step that would extend new protection to lesbian, gay and transgender people.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
The DEATH of Freedom in America - Peter Dale Scott (video)
10/04/09
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Youtube
I am more inclined to watch whenever Jason Bermas sits in. Peter Dale Scott paints a bleak picture of Constitutional protections in America. It's pretty tough not to conclude that the Constitution has been shredded in the United States. The right to
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
FBI eyes terror suspect's travel talk
10-08-2009
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AP
Authorities haven't ruled out the possibility that Zazi became so spooked by surveillance that he dumped any bombs or bomb components. Yet the lack of such concrete physical evidence as a backpack bomb has also forced investigators to do more painst
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News Link • TERRORISM
Key member of terror group pleads guilty
10-08-2009
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AP
Amara pleaded guilty to knowingly participating in a terrorist group and intending to cause an explosion for the benefit of a terrorist group. The suspects were followed, wiretapped as well as infiltrated by two paid police informants.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Pot legalization gains momentum in California
10-08-2009
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AP
Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
CHART OF THE DAY: Besides The Fed, Nobody Is Buying Agency Debt
10-08-2009
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The Business Insider
But here's a stark fact, via the Council on Foreign Relations: Only the Fed is buying agency debt. Foreign buyers, who once consumed it voraciously, have been net sellers so far this year.
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold-The Canary in the Coal Mine
10-08-2009
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Guest Blog for CNBS by Charles Goyette
There is no reasonable prospect of the federal debt being paid down. Nor can anyone possibly believe that today’s government bonds can be paid except by issuing new bonds tomorrow.
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News Link • Police State
ACLU Says Extracting DNA From Suspects Unconstitutional
10-08-2009
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Wired
California’s law requiring the authorities to take a DNA sample from every person arrested on felony accusations was challenged in federal court Wednesday as an unconstitutional privacy breach.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
34 banks don't pay their quarterly TARP dividends
10-08-2009
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USA Today
The U.S. taxpayers' investments in smaller banks are increasingly at risk.
In a sign that more banks are under great pressure from the recession, 34 financial institutions did not pay their quarterly dividends in August to the Treasury on funds ob
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
NYPD tracking cell phone owners, but foes aren't sure practice is legal
10-08-2009
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NY Daily News
The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.
In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones, the file could be a treasure-t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
powermat wireless charging
10-08-2009
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YouTube
(Publisher: "This shows where the internet is going in marketing. There is more freedom on the Internet to GET your attention. Here's some of the filth we can expect :) (YOU WERE WARNED!)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Video shows Dolton cop beating teen at school
10-08-2009
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WGN Chicago
A 15-year-old special needs student says a Dolton police officer assigned to his former school slammed him against the lockers, wrestled him to the floor and then pinned him down, breaking his nose, all because he didn't have his shirt tucked in.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Casa Grande HOA stripped of powers over accusations of theft and fraud
10-08-2009
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Arizona Capitol Times
A Casa Grande homeowners association was placed in receivership, following allegations that board members drained funds for their own benefit - including what was described as the “theft” of more than $600,000.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
The Greatest Show on Earth
Step right up: A new entitlement that cuts the deficit!
10-08-2009
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WSJ
Washington spent the week waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to roll in with its new cost estimates of the Senate health-care bill, and what a carnival. Behold: a new $829 billion entitlement that will subsidize insurance for tens of million
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News Link • Corruption
The SEC as a Political Agency, Nothing More, Nothing Less
10-08-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
It's clear to see that the SEC is really going after Cuban because of his in your face attitude in battling the SEC, in addition to his high profile.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Let's Not Forget about the NY Fed Connection
10-08-2009
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Goldman Sachs 666
Turbo Tim was president of the New York Fed during the five years prior to his appointment as Treasury Secretary. Becker and Morgenson pointed out many of the ways in which "conflict of interest" seems to be one of the cornerstones of that institutio
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News Link • Healthcare
ObamaCare: Health Care Solutions in the Beer Aisle
10-08-2009
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rizzuto
Where can politicians who grapple with the problems of health care go for answers? They need not look any further than their local stores. Down the beer aisle, to be exact.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Corruption
A Rare Earth Mine, Goldman Sachs and a $3m Grant
10-08-2009
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MetalMiner
The mine was owned by Chevron until last year when it sold the mine, facilities and name to an investment vehicle called Rare Earth Acquisitions LLC, owned in varying degrees by Goldman Sachs,
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News Link • Healthcare
STUDENT SLAMS ‘OBAMA PLAN’ AS KIDS SING FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM ON CNN
10-08-2009
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Breitbart
This young man understands the Evil of Socialism....
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News Link • Racism
FCC ‘DIVERSITY CZAR’ 2005 AUDIO: ‘FUNDAMENTAL RULES’ MUST CHANGE TO ALTER WHITE-DOMINATED MEDIA
10-08-2009
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Breitbart
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News Link • Obama Administration
NakedEmperorNews: Unearthed Video Senator Obama's Warning About Debt And Deficit
10-08-2009
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Hot Air
Just words, just speeches "We are borrowing from China non-stop"
"You lose respect for people who are like that"
"We are a indebted nation that not only makes us more vulnerable, it weakens the dollar, there has never been a country in the world wh
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News Link • Obama Administration
Frank's Plan Criticized As Too Lax
10-08-2009
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WSJ
Two federal regulators criticized parts of Rep. Barney Frank's proposal to overhaul financial regulation, saying it will let large companies escape restrictions on the types of financial products that contributed to last year's crisis.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil
10-08-2009
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chron.com
Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign during these and other negotiations " demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Image of ultra-thin Ralph Lauren model sparks outrage
10-08-2009
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shine.yahoo.com
Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow issued a stern warning to Ralph Lauren yesterday on the website, saying that the company's attempt to silence their criticism has only inspired them to step up their efforts in the future:
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News Link • China
I-Believe-in-Strong-Dollar Turns Relic as China Begs Stability
10-08-2009
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Bloomberg
More than a decade after former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made the “strong dollar” national policy, currency traders say the same words coming from the Obama administration have little meaning.
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News Link • New World Order
Robert Fisk on the Gulf 'ditching the dollar' in oil trade
10-08-2009
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You Tube
The report by Robert Fisk, the newspaper's Middle East correspondent, was published on Tuesday and cited unidentified sources in Gulf Arab states and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong.
Al Jazeera has this exclusive interview with Robert Fisk
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood
10-08-2009
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Telegraph
President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Asia steps in to support dollar
10-08-2009
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Financial Times
Asian central banks intervened heavily in the currency markets on Thursday to stem the appreciation of their currencies against the US dollar amid fears that their exports could be losing ground against China.
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News Link • Currencies
Aden Forecast: Gold to $4,100, then next target $5,800
10-08-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
A skillful veteran letter is sanguine about stocks " but positively gleeful about gold and other hard assets. Mary Anne and Pamela Aden’s Costa Rica-based Aden Forecast first came to fame in the last great gold bull market three decades ago.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed's 30 Minute Agency Monetization Window
10-08-2009
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Zero Hedge
Yet we were dumbfounded by this piece of information, presented to us by Jim Bianco, which demonstrates that the Fed's monetization of Agencies is far more blatant than anything even encountred in Treasuries.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ten Unanswered Questions For Our Future Robot Overlords
10-08-2009
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Popular Science
If you could ask the product of the robot-human merge ten questions, what would they be?
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News Link • Healthcare
Congress’ Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare " CONFIRMED
10/08/09
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Chandlers Watch
Leaders in the House and Senate have a plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan by Thanksgiving without any significant participation by the American public. CNS News has confirmed the details in our September 22nd titled “Pass
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ALERT! Financial picture grows dire
10/08/09
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Examiner
For months I have been warning readers to pay close attention to what has been happening behind the scenes in the financial sector of the country. My sources have issued several clear warnings concerning the volatility of the markets and the precari
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
Stephen Lemons on Declare Your Independence
10-08-2009
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Stephen Lemons aka The Feathered Bastard
I took up Phoenix libertarian Ernie Hancock's invite to be on his Webcast Wednesday morning, after much prodding from Hancock and his supporters. Alas, I couldn't make it into the studio. (Sorry, Ernie, I've never been an a.m. person.) Still, we spen
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