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Date Sent: 2009-03-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 4, 2009 AM edition |
Senate keeps thousands of earmarks -- Bernanke defends AIG rescue, says U.S. had no choice
Supremes confused over the ethics of judicial bribery -- It is your kid's debt - by Steven Pearlstein -- Financial Rescue Turns to Toxic Assets -- Ex-Countrywide Manager's never saw a government program they couldn't milk -- ATS To Introduce Overweight Photo Scam Cams -- Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition -- Betting on a General Electric Bankruptcy by June 19th
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Supremes confused over the ethics of judicial bribery
03-03-2009
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Washington Post
The Supreme Court seemed divided on familiar ideological grounds today when it confronted the question of whether a judge should recuse himself in a case where one of the parties spent millions of dollars supporting his election.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
It is your kid's debt
By Steven Pearlstein
03-03-2009
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Washington Post
Suddenly there seem to be lots of people who think our biggest economic problem is that President Obama and the Democratic Congress are about to saddle our grandchildren with a mountain of government debt so high that they will never be able to get o
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Rescue Turns to Toxic Assets
03-03-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is aiming to solve one of the toughest riddles at the heart of the financial crisis -- how to value the toxic assets weighing down the books of banks -- by setting up several funds to vie for these securities, sources familia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ex-Countrywide Manager's never saw a government program they couldn't milk
03-03-2009
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NY Times
Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt Collector's Rob Graves
03-03-2009
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NY Times
The people on the other end of the line often have no legal obligation to assume the debt of a spouse, sibling or parent. But they take responsibility for it anyway.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Paleontologists Strike Fossil Gold in Colombia
03-03-2009
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Washington Post
For the past five years, Jaramillo and his team of paleontologists have been burrowing ground so rich in fossils that they have made the kinds of discoveries that thrill the scientific world. And they still have years of digging ahead of them at this
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Disgraced Dentist Bites Back
03-03-2009
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The Agitator
Disgraced bite mark witness Michael West angrily responded yesterday to charges I first reported at Reason that he tampered with evidence by pushing a dental mold of a suspect’s teeth into the corpse of 23-month-old Haley Oliveaux.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
ATS To Introduce Overweight Photo Scam Cams
03-03-2009
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CameraFraud
American Traffic Solutions to Unveil Overweight and Overheight Vehicle Photo Enforcement Systems at World Congress on ITS in NY. ATS is pitching a new revenue scheme to photograph and cite vehicles that are too tall or heavy:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate ignores McCain, keeps thousands in earmarks
03-03-2009
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AP
McCain's attempt to strip out an estimated 8,500 earmarks failed on a vote of 63-32. The Arizona senator's proposal also would have cut roughly $32 billion from the measure and kept spending at last year's levels in several federal agenci
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition
03-03-2009
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AP
Republicans said the president's plan to charge fees to industries that spew greenhouse gases amounts to a stealthy tax increase for all Americans that will far exceed the new $400 annual tax cut for workers that he wants to extend beyond 2010.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke defends AIG rescue, says U.S. had no choice
03-03-2009
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Reuters
"Right now, small businesses across the country, who played by the rules, paid their bills on time, can't get a line of credit, while AIG seems to have an open spigot for taxpayer money," said Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A "Reckoning" Amid the Wreckage
by Will Grigg
03-03-2009
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Pro Liberate
If the secret to prosperity is simply to permit the government to spend money it doesn't have in any quantity our rulers can name on any project that pollutes their evil imaginations, why shouldn't they commission the construction of a huge f
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News Link • History
The Lessons of 1722
by Jim Davidson
03-03-2009
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The Libertarian Enterprise
"King Charles [II] took from your father the plate, specie, and bullion that had been entrusted to the House of Ham by its depositors. The House was ruined. Your father died of shame. Others in the goldsmith trade had suffered likewise
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Drug War Hangover
03-03-2009
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Media Awareness Project
The sheriff of a dry NC county makes a beer run across state lines for some hot, thirsty workers. The workers were undercover narcotics officers executing a warrant on a marijuana grow house.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Constitution
More Military Officers Demand Eligibility Proof
03-03-2009
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World Net Daily
Requesting the action are Maj. Gen. Carroll Childers; Lt. Col. Dr. David Earl-Graef; police officer Clinton Grimes, Lt. Scott Easterling, NH state Rep. Timothy Comerford; TN state Rep. Frank Nicely and others.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
American Economy and William the Conqueror's Conquest of Britain
03-03-2009
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YouTube.com
In this short interview Michael Hudson draws comparisons between William the Conqueror and the Doomsday book with the conquest of the American economy. He states that we are being sold into a 100 years of debt slavery by Obama. Pre Magna Carta...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Here It Comes GE: Betting on a General Electric Bankruptcy by June 19th
03-03-2009
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MarketWatch.com
General Electric is a stalwart of our financial and industrial system. A bankruptcy by GE would be catastrophic for our economy and capital markets. The follow-on damage with suppliers and customers would be even worse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Economic Team Will Ruin the U.S. the Way they did Russia in 90s
03-03-2009
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YouTube.com
In this 10 minute interview Michael Hudson rips the Obama administration and explains how the US has become a kleptocracy run by the oligarchs...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Police: Man Uses Fake Money to Buy Fake Drugs
03-03-2009
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pantagraph.com
Police said he used counterfeit money to purchase fake OxyContin pills from an undercover officer. Sheriff's deputies charged him with criminal conspiracy with schedule II drugs, forgery and criminal simulation.
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Brock Lorber
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