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Date Sent: 2009-02-22
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, February 22, 2009 Weekend Ed. |
Iran operates 1st nuclear power plant -- Obama: Cut deficit by raising taxes on rich & cheap war
Ron Paul to Bill Maher: America's War on Drugs must end -- While New York Bleeds Washington Thrives -- Clinton urges China to keep buying Treasury bonds -- Obama expanding military operations in Pakistan -- UK agents ‘colluded with torture in Pakistan’ -- Homeland Security Chief: We Were Wrong to Torture -- In China, Clinton focuses on global warming, not human rights -- Obama Administration Tries to Kill Bush e-Mail Case -- Over 120,000 march on Dublin in protest of Irish economy -- Predatory Legislators - by Peter Schiff -- Whistleblowing Nixes "Weapons Confiscation Exercise" In Iowa -- Price of Cocaine Set to Plunge, UN Warns -- Warning Against Adverse Health Effects From the Operation of Digital Broadcast -- Federal Reserve Off Balance Sheet Lending -- Paul Craig Roberts: Bill of Rights Under Fire -- Obama hits back at 'tea party' rant -- Pentagon: Gitmo Meets Geneva Convention Standards -- Obama continues Bush policy on detainees: Indefinite detention, no legal rights -- Barack Obama in Phoenix Arizona 2-18-09 VIDEO -- Jumbo Loan Defaults Rise at Fast Pace as Rich Suffer -- The Looming Collapse of European Banking: $25 Trillion Shortfall -- Google shoots down Atlantis claims -- Fascist Rule in Israel - by Stephen Lendman -- Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels
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News Link • Drug War
Ron Paul to Bill Maher: America's War on Drugs must end
02-22-2009
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RawStory.com
Congressman Ron Paul is the most conservative, grandfatherly man to ever be admired by America's marijuana enthusiasts.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Clinton urges China to keep buying Treasury bonds
02-22-2009
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AP
[choice quotes] "Our economies are so intertwined, the Chinese know that to start exporting again to their biggest market, namely the United States, ... we have to incur more debt."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama expanding military operations in Pakistan: Report
02-22-2009
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RawStory.com
US President Barack Obama's administration has broadened the number of radical groups targeted by the CIA inside Pakistan
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half
02-22-2009
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Politico.com
The official said the bulk of the savings come from winding down the war in Iraq, additional revenue from raising taxes on the wealthy
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Iran
Iran to begin operation of 1st nuclear power plant
02-22-2009
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AP
Iran's official news agency says the country's first nuclear power plant will begin preliminary phase operation on Wednesday after a series of delays. A "pilot stage operation" of the power plant will start during a visit by the hea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
UK agents ‘colluded with torture in Pakistan’
02-22-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Homeland Security
Homeland Security Chief: We Were Wrong to Torture
02-22-2009
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PrisonPlanet.com
The first head of the Department of Homeland Security - Tom Ridge - has agreed with the recent report by the International Commission of Jurists which said that anti-terror measures worldwide had seriously undermined international human rights law.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
In China, Clinton focuses on global warming, not human rights
02-22-2009
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McClatchy News
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set a new tone for U.S. relations with China, saying the two nations would join a common battle against global warming even as they look for ways to pull the world out of economic turmoil and recession.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama to cut deficit by raising taxes on rich and doing war on the cheap
02-22-2009
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Washington Post
President Obama will unveil an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next 4 years, primarily by raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Alan Keyes "Obama isn't American!"
02-22-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
Keyes has some very strong opinions about President Obama.He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist,” said Keye
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Drug War
!!!!! State Senator Dan Patrick… “TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD ON ALERT”!!!!!
02-21-2009
100’s of PRO-DRUG CARTEL Mexicans were blocking the entrance to the United States, yesterday and today, banging cars, shouting and holding signs. 10 people were killed Wed. and 12 more yesterday at the border (5 of which were children!!!)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Housing aid won't solve U.S. crisis
02-21-2009
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International Herald Tribune
About 28 percent of mortgage borrowers now owe more than the value of the houses, according to Zelman & Associates. And with equity stocks down 45 to 50 percent, their assets have shrunk more alarmingly, making them less good risks.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
What Change? Obama Administration Tries to Kill Bush e-Mail Case
02-21-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Over 120,000 march on Dublin in protest of Irish economy
02-21-2009
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Rawstory.com
Up to 120,000 protesters brought Dublin city centre to a standstill on Saturday over government austerity measures aimed at stabilising the once high-flying economy now wracked by recession.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Predatory Legislators
02-21-2009
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Peter Schiff for LewRockwell.com
The ringleaders are still at-large and are, in fact, busy hatching a plan to dwarf the earlier mistakes.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Whistleblowing Nixes "Weapons Confiscation Exercise" In Iowa
2-21-2009
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WorldNetDaily via newsletter e-mail
Following publicized reports... the commanding officers have called off the mock "invasion." (I wonder why? LOL)
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Founding Fathers Spin in Their Graves While Obama Beats Jesus
2-21-2009
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Thaindian.com via Rense.com
I wonder just who they asked on this poll looking at the rest of the list...?
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Price of Cocaine Set to Plunge, UN Warns
2-21-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
It comes less than a week after Home Office figures suggested a line of cocaine is now cheaper than a pint of lager or glass of wine.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea 'Fully Ready For War' With South
2-21-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.com
North Korean leaders have said the country is "fully ready" for war with South Korea, stepping up its rhetoric just hours before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scheduled to arrive in Seoul.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailout Euphoria Waning Fast - by Joel Skousen
2-21-2009
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World Affairs Brief via Rense.com
"Not only does it set a huge precedent of misusing government funds, but it isn't going to work."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Party Mouthpiece Response to Santelli Rant
02-21-2009
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MSNBC
With his extensive experience within the party, WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs responds to Rick Santelli's exasperation with Party politics.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Communications
Warning Against Adverse Health Effects From the Operation of Digital Broadcast
2-21-2009
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Scribd via Rense.com
Dear President Obama. We write to you today because we wish to save you from the significant negative health consequences that have occurred here in Germany.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Party Mouthpiece to Educate Veteran Trader on Markets
02-21-2009
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American Thinker
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has invited veteran trader and CNBC commentator Rick Santelli to the White House for decaf coffee and a lecture on how markets work.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Rust Belt Solar Revival
02-21-2009
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arclein
The demise of the rust belt was always an exaggeration, just as the fear that German industry could not compete. All industrial production is about intelligent design and then taking a few cents of raw material, pounding it a few times and selling it
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Vanadium Battery
02-21-2009
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arclein
I was reminded recently of the vanadium battery " see attached item from Wikipedia. The low energy density has kept this technology sidelined in the battery business since the apparent demand opportunity is in mobile applications. Now that the solar
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robert klein
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News Link • Political Theory
The Dark Side of the Law of Attraction
2-21-2009
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American Chronicle via Mr. Blestman himself!
"This is the dark side of the Law of Attraction and the evil it can produce, and it appears to be winning at the moment."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Corruption
HOTTEST VIDEO ON THE NET! - Alan Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. Will Cease To Exist!!!!
2-21-2009
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YouTube via RonPaulGraphics Yahoo! Group
If this video doesn't generate STARK-RAVING MAD comments... RRRRR!!! I AM SOOOO PISSED!!!!!!!
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Off Balance Sheet Lending
02-21-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog/
You will notice a dramatic change in this chart starting 18 months ago. The information I have tells me that this chart will look much worse by the time we have Jack-O-Lanterns in American's front yards.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Domestic Policy
The Stimulous Scam - by Alan Adaschik
2-21-2009
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constitutionforum.us via e-mail from Kat (Thanks!)
This article is a reality check because the truth is that most Americans are so out of touch with reality that something needs to be done to wake them up.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Paul Craig Roberts: Bill of Rights Under Fire
02-21-2009
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CounterPunch.com
The Act would permit the government to negate Second Amendment rights by refusing to issue a license. Any parents who bequeathed family antique or historic firearms to heirs would be in violation of the act, as it bans any transfer of a firearm othe
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama hits back at 'tea party' rant
02/21/09
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WND
The White House apparently noticed yesterday when a CNBC analyst's impassioned critique of President Obama's mortgage-rescue plan became an Internet phenomenon.
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Housing
So Cal Real Estate: Median Price Down 50 Percent from Peak in 2007
02-21-2009
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DoctorHousingBubble.com
The housing situation is deteriorating even further with the recent report showing that the median price is now back to $250,000; at this level we would have to go back to February of 2002 which means we have erased 6 years of price gains. And we ar
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Wilbur Ross: Obama Foreclosure Fix Not Enough
02-21-2009
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housingwire.com/
That’s $8,000 per borrower, broken down to $1,600 a year, to offset the cost of mortgage modification. Ross told CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, “Does anyone really think that all that keeps 9 million people from losing their homes is $1,600 per year
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
No Housing Recovery Before Further Price Declines
02-21-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog/
But given the remorseless rise in unemployment, which, if anything, is destined to accelerate in the months ahead, the simple fact that so many people are too strapped to afford to buy a home, is, we believe, the most formidable barrier to even a tep
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama continues Bush policy on detainees: Indefinite detention, no legal rights
02-21-2009
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Rawstory.com
President Barack Obama signaled Friday he will continue Bush Administration policy with regard to detainees held at a US airbase in Afghanistan, saying they have no right to challenge their detentions in US courts -- and denying them legal status alt
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Barack Obama in Phoenix Arizona 2-18-09
02-21-2009
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WeAreChangeAZ YouTube
VIDEO (This video is very well done and a very good representation of what actually happened here in Phoenix,... not what the Lame-Stream Media said happened. Please watch this quality production by our friends here in Arizona)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Depression
Jumbo Loan Defaults Rise at Fast Pace as Rich Suffer
02-20-09
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Bloomberg News
More bailout money needed! Quick!
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Lloyd Gaarder
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News Link • Economy - International
The Looming Collapse of European Banking: $25 Trillion Shortfall
02-21-2009
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Gary North for LewRockwell.com
The banking system of Europe is at the edge of the abyss. A brief story by The Telegraph revealed this last week. The original was almost immediately deleted. A new version was substituted. (IMPORTANT READING)
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Google shoots down Atlantis claims
02-21-2009
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AFP
No, the lost city of Atlantis has not been found. Google Earth images showing what appeared to be a grid of streets on the ocean floor off the coast of Africa were actually tracks left by boat sonar.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Troops to practice mass gun confiscation in Iowa
02-21-2009
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Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa
The Carroll National Guard unit will train on urban military operations by holding a four-day exercise at Arcadia.The purpose of the April 2-5 drill will be to gather intelligence, then search for and apprehend a suspected weapons dealer,
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mississippi Passes Legislation Protecting Gun Owners During Martial Law
02-21-2009
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http://www.infowars.com
The legislation “restricts the power of a peace officer to confiscate firearms and ammunition in an emergency or during a time of martial law,” according to the website. It is significant that Lieutenant Governor Bryant mentions the law applies to ma
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - International
George Soros: No bottom for world 'financial collapse'
02-21-2009
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rawstory.com/news/
Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels
02-21-2009
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businessweek.com/
During the darkest 10 years of the Great Depression, from September 1929 to September 1939, the stock market dropped roughly 50%, adjusted for inflation. With today's drop in the stock market, the U.S. has now matched that unfortunate milestone.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
Firestorm Brewing Between US States and Federal Government
02-21-2009
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OpEd News - Lance L. Landon
Could this be an ominous shadow drawing on the end of the United States of America? For years the Federal Government has presumed to be the all-powerful force governing our country,
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Jim Stachowiak
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