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Date Sent: 2009-02-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 13, 2009 PM Edition |
Large US banks on brink of insolvency -- US Going Down the Japan Path By Not Taking Out Dud Banks
Stimulus Package Won't be Read Before Vote - (DUH!) -- Economy Forces Florida to Consider 4-day School Week -- Legal Guide for Bloggers (EFF) -- President And Congress Grovel Before The Fed - by Chuck Baldwin -- Whispering Evil: U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb -- A Short History of US Government Handouts - by Stephen Lendman -- Outrageous Police Abuse in Milwaukee Wisconsin -- 49 killed as plane crashes into home near Buffalo New York
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News Link • Food
Monsanto in Illinois: Homeland Security and USDA Plan Attacks Against Animals
02-13-2009
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Linn Cohen-Cole
First the grain and veggies, now the meat. Monsanto, in collusion with the FDA, USDA, etc. - in other words, the bad guys - are set to take over every aspect of our food supply.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Breaking News: S&P heads to first quarter ever of negative earnings
2-13-09
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MarketWatch.com
As Wall Street tracks Washington's moves to help the beleaguered banking sector and pass more economic stimulus, nearly 400 of the S&P's 500 companies have weighed in and reported a collective loss -- even excluding financials.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economy Turning
02-13-2009
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arclein
In the meantime, what else has happened? The real global economy slammed on the brakes and shook off excess use of credit and inventory. All commodity prices have collapsed back to painful levels, including that of oil. Surplus inventories and capaci
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation by Judy Shelton
2-13-2009
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WSJ.com via e-mail from Joan Lewis (Thanks!)
"Let's give the Fed some competition. Abolish legal tender laws and see whose money people trust."
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Corruption
(Stimulus Package Won't be Read Before Vote - DUH!)
02-13-2009
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CNSnews.com
Democratic Senator Predicts None of His Colleagues 'Will Have the Chance' to Read Final Stimulus Bill Before Vote
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Large U.S. banks on brink of insolvency, experts say
02-13-2009
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International Herald Tribune
A sober assessment of the growing mountain of losses from bad bets, measured in today's marketplace, would overwhelm the value of the banks' assets, they say. The banks, in their view, are insolvent.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner's contradictory plan (look for this segment in listing)
02-13-2009
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CNN
Fortune's Shawn Tully says the treasury secretary's plan for helping banks has too many conflicting ideas and too little detail.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
President's Attorneys File Motion Demanding Birth, College Records Be Withheld From Public
02-13-2009
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WorldNetDaily via e-mail
"Please be advised, in particular, that in the event we are forced to file a motion to quash and we prevail in that motion, we will seek the full measure of monetary sanctions provided for..." (BACK OFF!)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism on the Geithner Financial Fiasco
2-13-09
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money.cnn.com/
The difficult part of this interview is that the CNN reporter can't keep up with Yves Smith.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. Going Down the Japan Path By Not Taking Out Dud Banks
2-13-09
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NakedCapitalism.com
The Japanese are as nicely as they possibly can telling the US that we are in a terrible mess and we need to get on top of it ASAP. This is a blunt warning. I am sure the significance of the Japanese attempt at tough love will be lost.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Reference Link • Media: Internet
Legal Guide for Bloggers
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.
Entered by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Iran
Whispering Evil: U.S. now sees Iran as pursuing nuclear bomb
2-13-09
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LAtimes.com
Astute writers like Justin Raimondo warned us what the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as Obama's chief of staff would mean concerning Iran. War!
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Legislature may cut another $250 million to $425 million from 2009 budget
2-12-09
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AZcentral.com
Thursday's notice from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee was based on state tax collections for January, which are down an estimated 21.5 percent over January 2008.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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