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Date Sent: 2009-02-02
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, February 2, 2009 AM Edition |
Last-Minute Drive Pushes Steelers to 6th Title -- 1 Million Riot in Protest of Economic Crisis
Israel Strikes Gaza After Militant Rocket Fire -- Chen Arizonians Children Reed, Rite ‘n Ad? - by Dave Hodges -- Cindy Sheehan: Un-plug from the Obamatrix and tune-in to reality! -- California Economy Near Collapse -- State Budget Troubles Worsen: 46 states faced or are facing shortfalls -- More Than 100 dead In Kenya Gasoline Blaze -- Obama preserves 'Rendition Flights' two days after taking office -- Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets -- Kentucky hit by massive ice storm, FEMA takes 5 days to respond! -- Joseph Stiglitz Criticizes Bad Bank Plan as Swapping ‘Cash for Trash’ -- Rahm Emanuel Speaks at the Brady Center's Stand Up For a Safe America -- Germany, UK urge global economic overseer: Economic New World Order -- Israel hopes to colonize parts of Kurdish Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’ -- U.S. Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce -- The real unemployment rate of 17% -- Are They Afraid to Tell Us the Catastrophic Nature of the U.S. Financial Crisis? -- "Cruelty is a good attribute" Says Israeli Army Rabbi -- Back shooting cop uses 'I thought it was my tazer' defense
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’
2-02-09
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Antiwar.com
Don’t forget Obama’s new Homeland Security appointment of a “cybercrimes expert” as general counsel. You know, instead of abolishing Bush’s gargantuan Homeland Security bureaucracy altogether. Catch the creepy photo.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Humor
Yankees Lose 2003 World Series in six games. "Damn Yankees", cry detractors.
10/25/2003
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USA Today
The earth has stopped spinning, and according to leading scholars, the earth is coming to an end tuit-suite. Believe it or not the New York Yankees have lost the World Series AGAIN in the year of our lord 2003.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justin Raimondo: Vladimir Putin Tells the West to Take Your Medicine
2-2-09
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Antiwar.com
I lived to see an American president red-baited by the Kremlin! That, in itself, is utterly amazing, and proof positive that we have indeed slipped into an alternate universe, a Bizarro World where history runs backward " and in reverse.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Democrats Set High Goal Of Narrowing Budget Deficit
2-1-2009
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Washington Post
Fixing the budget would require a kind of joint political suicide, with Democrats agreeing to trim costly social programs and Republicans acquiescing to a major tax hike. That kind of bargain seems highly unlikely now, even for a popular new presiden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel Strikes Gaza After Militant Rocket Fire
2-1-2009
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AP
Israel threatened "harsh and disproportionate" retaliation after Gaza militants fired at least 10 rockets and mortar shells across the border Sunday and warplanes later bombed the area where Hamas smuggles in weapons from Egypt through tunn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Last-Minute Drive Pushes Steelers to Sixth Title
2-1-2009
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NY Times
After Pittsburgh lost a lead that it had held since the first possession of the game, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and receiver Santonio Holmes moved the Steelers 78 yards and connected for a 6-yard touchdown that Holmes grabbed as he was falling o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
‘Grimmest’ Davos Ever Brings Anger, Finger-Pointing at Bankers
2-01-09
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Bloomberg.com
“God knows, some really stupid things were done by American banks and by American investment banks,” Dimon said. “To policy makers, I say: ‘Where were they?’”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
New Terms in Bailout Funding Talks Go Beyond 'Bad Bank'
2-01-09
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CNBC.com
The aid portion also included consideration of capital injections along the lines of the recapitalization measures undertaken by the Bush administration, and a so-called "ring fence" concept, in which the government uses a combination of g
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Cindy Sheehan: Un-plug from the 'ObaMatrix' and tune-in to reality!
2-01-09
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AfterDowningStreet.org
To blindly trust any system is inherently dangerous. It is healthy to step back from the matrix and always level a critical eye and if necessary rise up in rebellion.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Economy Near Collapse
2-01-09
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marketoracle.co.uk/
Let's just use the $45 billion deficit for the sake of argument in looking at what this number really means. The Trumpet reports that if the Governator fired all the 149,000 legislative aids and people working in the courts and universities that
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Budget Troubles Worsen: 46 states faced or are facing shortfalls
2-01-09
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cbpp.org/
The states’ fiscal problems are continuing into the next two years. At least 41 states have looked ahead and anticipate deficits for fiscal year 2010 and beyond.[1] These gaps total almost $88 billion " 16 percent of budgets...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama preserves 'Rendition Flights' two days after taking office
2-01-09
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Rawstory.com
Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition -- the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. -- remains in the CIA's playbook, t
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’
02-01-2009
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http://blacklistednews.com
Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered par
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Police State
Police want right to jam cell signals
02-01-2009
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http://www.washingtonpost.com
As President Obama’s motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, source
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
The Supposed Economic Boom Of Hosting SUPER BOWL Is Super Bogus, Says Professor
2-1-2009
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www.tampabays10.com
"There's probably been 40 or 50 published articles on the economic impact of sporting events, and they uniformly come to the conclusion that there's no noticeable footprint. Nothing statistically significant comes out of that."
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Family
Good Things Still Happen in America
1-30-2009
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Yahoo! News
DAYTON, Nev. " Gabriel Hurles' sixth birthday party wasn't a surprise, but his present sure was.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
More Than 100 dead In Kenya Gasoline Blaze
2-1-2009
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Yahoo! News
Burn victims lined the floors of overwhelmed hospitals Sunday... after an overturned gasoline tanker exploded as hundreds of people tried to scoop up free fuel.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Humor
Just a little funny Cartoon I saw in the border of a Blog
02-01-2009
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http://kateos.org/img/maeavatar.gif
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets
1-31-09
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Guardian.co.uk
But while the outlook may be dark in the big wealthy democracies of western Europe, it is in the young, poor, vulnerable states of central and eastern Europe that the trauma of crash, slump and meltdown looks graver.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Karl Denninger: "Here It Comes"
1-31-09
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net
Income tax and sales tax numbers are frightening with many state governments reporting double-digit drops in the last month. All these handouts and bailouts sound good but where is the money going to come from? When the money runs out the game is ov
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Joseph Stiglitz Criticizes Bad Bank Plan as Swapping ‘Cash for Trash’
1-31-09
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Bloomberg.com
That amounts to swapping taxpayers’ “cash for trash,” Stiglitz said in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today. “You shouldn’t chase good money after bad. We’re talking about a national debt that’s very hard to mana
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Carbonizing Corn in the Field to make Biochar
01-31-2009
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arclein
A further consideration that has bedeviled biochar productiion is that few can get wood out of their thinking. It is only slowly that people are coming to understand that terra preta is and must be made from soft plant material.
Biochar will have
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robert klein
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Las Vegas Super Bowl LXIII Betting Odds
1-31-2009
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National Sports Advisors
Loooong list of everything you could possibly bet on from the winner to total distance for the 1st field goal made, plus pre-season odds (we were 40-1 and Pitt was 15-1).
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rahm Emanuel Speaks at the Brady Center's Stand Up For a Safe America
1/31/09
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youtube.com
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not understand? [Ed] Obama's Chief of
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Congress Sued To Remove Prez From White House
1-31-2009
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WND via e-mail
A new lawsuit is challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and this one targets Congress as a defendant for its "failure" to uphold the constitutional demand to make sure Obama qualified...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
Germany, UK urge global economic overseer: Economic New World Order
1-31-09
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Reuters.com/
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Germany and Britain called on Friday for a global economic watchdog with strengthened powers to prevent rather than react to financial crises that can spiral into worldwide recession.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
Israel hopes to colonize parts of Kurdish Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’
1-31-09
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onlinejournal.com/
The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish “properties” outside of the Kurdish regi
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
1-31-09
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Prisonplanet.com/
The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling President Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. military.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
January Economic Summary in Graphs
1-31-09
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Here is a collection of 20 real estate and economic graphs from January provided by CalculatedRisk.com. I hope you will take the time to go over these charts so you can fully appreciate the nature of the crisis we face.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
John Williams of Shadowstats.com on the real unemployment rate of 17 percent
1-31-09
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c-span.org/
John Williams, Founder of Shadow Government Statistics, calculates that the jobless rate is a full l0 percent higher than the government is reporting. 5 minute interview.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Are They Afraid to Tell Us the Catastrophic Nature of the U.S. Financial Crisis?
1-31-09
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
You want leverage? Imagine a 20 billion dollar portfolio of mortgage backed securities with a capital base of $10k, literally 2 million-fold leverage. Imagine the shock of the inventor as he watches as his successors expand similar portfolios up to $
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Israel
"Cruelty is a good attribute" Says Israeli Army Rabbi
The Israeli army's chief rabbinate gave soldiers preparing to enter the Gaza Strip a booklet implying that all Palestinians are their mortal enemies and advising them that cruelty is sometimes a "good attribute".
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
February 13, 2009 - put this date on your calender
01-31-2009
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Wikipedia
The International is an upcoming American action-drama film. The film follows a pair that investigates corruption within a banking institution. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out!
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Back shooting cop uses 'I thought it was my tazer' defense
1-31-2009
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AP
The transit officer who is accused of shooting and killing an [handcuffed] unarmed [non-resisting] man may have mistakenly pulled his service pistol instead of a stun gun, according to documents filed by his lawyer Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Civil Disturbance Operations
Jan. 30, 2009
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U.S. Army Military Police School
It is obvious that our military has been planning for domestic civil disturbance operations for quite sometime.
Military
RDL
Homepage
Table of
Contents
Document
Information
Download
Instructions
CIVIL DISTURBANCE OPERATIONS
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Michael Goza
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Your privacy is under attack !
01-31-2009
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http://www.ixquick.com
Privacy on the Internet is increasingly under attack, as searches and visits are routinely recorded and combined into personal and behavioral profiles by the major search engines.
While you are searching the internet, these engines register the tim
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Drug War
Maybe *This* Is How The War On Marijuana Ends
01-30-2009
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Reality Catcher
An Illinois jury has found a man innocent in a marijuana case that would have sent him to prison. Disabled Vietnam veteran Loren Swift, 59, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, and he faced a mandatory minimum of six years
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Steve Elliott
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