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Date Sent: 2010-03-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 12, 2010 |
Deal Reached to Pay Up to $657M for World Trade Center Health Cases
FHA challenged on projected risk to taxpayers -- Obama's ambitious export plan may rekindle free-trade battle
-- Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny -- Police clash with
protesters as Greeks fight cuts -- 43 Percent Have Less Than $10k for
Retirement -- Doug Casey on Surviving Financial Apocalypse Now - by Louis James -- One Mainframe to Rule Them All -- Commercial Real Estate Threatens Banks, Lenders, Consumer Credit - by Sharon Secor -- Competition for the IMF’s Gold? - by Jeff Clark -- Oregon Dept. of Pre-Crime detains man for mental health evaluation after buying guns
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Deal Reached to Pay Up to $657M for World Trade Center Health Cases
03-11-2010
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AP
After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
FHA challenged on projected risk to taxpayers
03-11-2010
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Washington Post
The Federal Housing Administration will need taxpayer money because it failed to properly project how borrowers with FHA-backed loans are affected by job losses and diminished equity in their homes, New York University professor Andrew Caplin told a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Trade
Obama's ambitious export plan may rekindle free-trade battle
03-11-2010
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Washington Post
President Obama unveiled plans to double U.S. exports over the next five years in hopes of spurring job growth, an ambitious goal that may rekindle the battle over free-trade policy. The president acknowledged the formidable barriers to his goal: dou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Myanmar's Suu Kyi Denounces New Election Laws
03-11-2010
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NY Times
Myanmar's military regime unveiled on Friday the last of its election laws, which detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has described as unjust and repressive.
The laws bar the Nobel Peace laureate from running for office or even voting in p
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny
03-11-2010
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NY Times
During the depths of the economic crisis last year, the prices for many goods held steady or even dropped. But on American farms, the picture was far different, as farmers watched the price they paid for seeds skyrocket. Corn seed prices rose 32 perc
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Lesbian teen in prom flap sues, returns to school
03-11-2010
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AP
Constance McMillen didn't believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. A day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18-year-o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
Court upholds 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance
03-11-2010
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AP
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on US currency, rejecting arguments that the phrases violate the principle of separation of church and state.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Slowly, Americans are regaining their lost wealth
03-11-2010
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AP
Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth - gradually. Household net worth rose last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was slight. And it was less than in the previous two quarters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Police clash with protesters as Greeks fight cuts
03-11-2010
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Reuters
Police clashed with stone-throwing youths in Athens as tens of thousands of strikers protested against draconian cutbacks aimed at pulling Greece out of a debt crisis shaking the euro zone. In one central square hundreds of protesters hurled sticks a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
03-11-2010
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Reporters Without Borders
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attempting to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increas
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Norway doomsday seed vault hits 1/2 million mark
03-11-2010
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AP
2 years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds. The seed collection is 1,000km from the North Pole, now hous
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Census
Christopher Walken: How to complete a census
03-10-2010
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Farm Wars
This is hilarious! I watch it over and over. I think you will like it too.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Precious Metals
It's Going To Implode: Buy Physical Gold - NOW
03-11-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Any unbiased observer who knows how to put two and two together will be able to tell that something very fishy is going on. The urgency with which trillions in debt is being shoved down the market's throat at the worst possible time for the US Econom
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
43 Percent Have Less Than $10k for Retirement
03-11-2010
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money.cnn.com/
The percentage of workers who said they have less than $10,000 in savings grew to 43% in 2010, from 39% in 2009, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute's annual Survey. That excludes the value of primary homes and defined-benefit pensi
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Explosive Lehman Report: Where Are The Cops?
03-11-2010
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Market-ticker.denninger.net/
Neither the FDIC or Treasury has a spare $500 billion laying around for the potential payout to depositors that might be necessary in such an instance, we cannot reasonably assume that the risk of financial Armageddon has in fact passed...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Source for Tracking Economic Data Shows the Double-Dip is Here
03-11-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Current real-time consumer tracking data is showing contraction even as the latest GDP release indicates nearly 6% growth. The GDP lags by some 17 weeks both because it measures production activities 'downstream' from consumers...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The Beck Deception
03-11-2010
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granddelusion.wordpress.com via Rense.com
If you are a die-hard Glenn Beck fan (like I was), please keep a very open mind as you read this. Our freedom depends on it.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
Socialists Day of Action
03/10/10
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Uncommon Sense
This post is about a few things; the underlying indoctrination being used to push us towards socialism, the organizations that are behind this hidden agenda and what makes them so dangerous. They have a revolutionary mentality, they subscribe to the
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Reported by:
Dave Johannes
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News Link • New World Order
One Mainframe to Rule Them All
03-11-2010
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FAULLBROS
A breathtaking rundown of the human microchipping agenda. It breaks down the coming global information control grid in all its horrifying detail. Scarier than any horror movie could be because it is real and documented.
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Barbara Peterson
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Feature Article • Precious Metals
Competition for the IMF’s Gold?
Jeff Clark
On February 24, Reuters reported that the Reserve Bank of India was “set to be a buyer” of the 191.3 tonnes (6.74 million ounces) of gold the IMF is selling. Although the bank wouldn’t comment directly on the possibility, they did say, “We are closel
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Do Americans Have Standing Anymore?
03-11-2010
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We The People For Constitutional Education
One American Argues Historical Lawsuit Against the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury For Unconstitutional Billion-Dollar AIG Bailouts - TODAY!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
UK to Create Potemkin Villages: Welcome to Pleasantville
03-11-2010
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BlackListedNews.com & news.BBC.co.uk
The government-funded project involves colourful graphic designs featuring a range of different shop types, which are either taped inside the windows or screwed to the fascia so they can be removed and reused as required.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Energy
Gov't Plan: Mandate "low-flow" Xboxes and PS3s - (is your game system green?)
03-11-2010
A Senate committee gave a sympathetic hearing today to legislation ordering a Department of Energy study of "minimum energy efficiency standards" for video game consoles.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
Oregon Dept. of Pre-Crime detains man for mental health evaluation after buying guns
03-11-2010
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KUDA 1610am
An Oregon Dept. of Trans. employee, who purchased several guns after being placed on leave, and who was said to be "disgruntled", was apprehended by a SWAT team after making legal purchases of guns.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Diabetes and Soda Drinks
03-11-2010
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arclein
This new research reveals that over the last decade, soda consumption has conservatively caused:
• 130,000 new cases of diabetes
• 14,000 new cases of heart disease
• 50,000 more "life years" with heart disease over the last decade
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Skin Cancer Treatment
03-11-2010
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arclein
My own healing happened when Greg arrived at our home two years ago with Cansema. I had just been diagnosed with basal cell skin cancer after a biopsy had been taken from a very large and deep lesion on my back.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Economy Falters as Obama Fiddles with Healthcare
03-11-2010
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arclein
The USA has entered the zone in which a major depression is possible. We even have a handful of morons in congress attempting to float a beggar thy neighbor tariff policy. They must think that we need another twelve million unemployed.
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robert klein
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