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Date Sent: 2009-03-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 18, 2009 AM edition |
Health care overhaul may cost taxpayers "about" $1.5 trillion -- Russia pitches one world currency
Legislator wants random drug tests for the unemployed -- Obama Considering Expanding Pakistan War -- Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG -- President Plans to Charge Wounded War Heroes for Their Treatment -- Freddie Mac: The Government's Next Black Hole? -- Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day -- "Domestic Terrorist" Policy Announced in 1999 Now Codified in Patriot Act - by Greg Dixon -- IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing' -- Barney Frank: We Own AIG, Now Let's Act Like It -- Advice to Obama about AIG Bonuses - by Paul Levinson -- The Southern Avenger on "Racist Jim Clyburn" -- When Horse Theft is State Sanctioned - by Szandor Blestman -- New US Copyright Law - 70 years retroactive? -- Israeli soldier shot American activist in face with tear gas can -- The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble - by Catherine Austin Fitts -- A New Era of Responsibility - Obama's Budget -- End of the Road for Agent Orange Victims?
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News Link • Drug War
Florida legislator wants random drug tests for the unemployed
03-17-2009
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Rawstory
Employers have justified drug tests in the workplace by pointing to such negative effects of drug use as absenteeism and work-related injuries. Now a Florida legislator has proposed that random drug-testing also be applied to those receiving unemploy
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama Considering Expanding Pakistan War
03-17-2009
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NY Times
President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban leaders are orchest
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Senate ends Congress' 'stealth' pay raise system, but House leaders not on board
03-17-2009
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Rawstory
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's eight-year struggle to convince the U.S. Senate to end Congress' "stealth" pay raise system, which grants senators and representatives an automatic cost-of-living raise each year.
But the deepeni
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG
03-17-2009
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Examiner
Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
President Plans to Charge Wounded War Heroes for Their Treatment
03-17-2009
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AP
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of mi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Russia pitches one world currency
03-17-2009
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Moscow Times
The Kremlin published its priorities for an upcoming meeting of the G20, calling for the creation of a supranational reserve currency to be issued by international institutions as part of a reform of the global financial system. The International Mon
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Suspected Al-Qaeda Agent Gets Hearing
03-17-2009
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Washington Post
Suspected al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri spent years isolated in a U.S. Navy brig after authorities proclaimed him an enemy combatant in the Bush administration's long-running war against terrorism.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Prison Officials Are Loosening Restrictions on Taliban Supporter
03-17-2009
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Washington Post
Prison officials are easing restrictions on John Walker Lindh, the Californian captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan who became known as the "American Taliban," according to government documents.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Pentagon Official Warns of Risk of Cyber Attacks
03-17-2009
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Washington Post
The head of the Pentagon's Strategic Command warned the US is vulnerable to cyberattacks "across the spectrum" and that more needs to be done to defend against the potential of online strikes, which could "potentially threaten not
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Freddie Mac: The Government's Next Black Hole?
03-17-2009
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Time
Mortgage giant Freddie Mac lost $50 billion in 2008 alone. A look at the company's books suggests the government will have to spend at least triple that much to save the financial firm from collapse. If the housing market worsens, the tab could b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Health care overhaul may cost taxpayers "about" $1.5 trillion
03-17-2009
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AP
Guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade, health experts say. That's more than double the $634 billion 'down payment' President Barack Obama set aside for health reform in his budge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
03-18-2009
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Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistle blower site Wikileaks.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Bailouts
Charles Grassley lectures AIG
03-17-2009
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Mark Yannone
Senator Grassley criticizes AIG for taking advantage of the taxpayer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'
03-17-2009
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Telegraph.co.uk
The IMF is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency". [you thought only the Fed could do this?]
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Philosophy: Communism
Barney Frank: We Own AIG, Now Let's Act Like It
03/17/09
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Youtube
Correct me if I'm Wrong, but when government officials starts claiming ownership of private corporations you have Marxism. I hope I am wrong, otherwise we have officially entered into communist state.
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Bailouts
Advice to Obama about AIG Bonuses
03-17-2009
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Paul Levinson
bankrupt orgs need not honor contracts; if AIG insists on giving the bonuses, the gov should take them to court
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Resurgence of Main Street
03-17-2009
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Bloody Mary Breakfast
During boom periods, returns on investment allow small businesses to afford the high capital costs of urban centers. During the correction, the low-cost capital in small towns and rural areas gains new attraction.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
When Horse Theft is State Sanctioned by Szandor Blestman
03-17-2009
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American Chronicle
"It is the people who still believe in the cult of the state who help maintain the illusion of legitimacy these tyrants hold over the populace." (Well said! - Ed)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
When Horse Theft is State Sanctioned by Szandor Blestman
03-17-2009
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American Chronicle
"It is the people who still believe in the cult of the state who help maintain the illusion of legitimacy these tyrants hold over the populace." (Well said! - Ed)
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Corruption
New US Copyright Law - 70 years retroactive?
03-17-2009
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UK Guardian
Cloaked in a bogus State Secret defense, our government won't let us know any details of the new US copyright law. But the UK newspapers seem to know...
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Reported by:
Trouser Chili
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israeli soldier shot American activist in face with tear gas can
03-17-2009
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PalSolidarity.org,
An American citizen has been critically injured in the village of Ni’lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a tear-gas canister.The heavy impact from the tear gas canister being shot directly at him, from about 60 meters,
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TERRORISM
MISSOURI STATE POLICE THINK YOU AND I ARE TERRORISTS by Chuck Baldwin
03-17-2009
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NewsWithViews via RonPaulForums
"Anyone who knows anything at all about history knows that before a state or national government can persecute--and commit acts of violence against--a group of people, they must first marginalize the group from society's mainstream and categ
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • TERRORISM
MISSOURI STATE POLICE THINK YOU AND I ARE TERRORISTS by Chuck Baldwin
03-17-2009
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NewsWithViews via RonPaulForums
"Anyone who knows anything at all about history knows that before a state or national government can persecute--and commit acts of violence against--a group of people, they must first marginalize the group from society's mainstream and categ
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
A New Era of Responsibility - Obama's Budget
03-17-2009
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US Government
pdf file of the actual $3.6T budget proposal. Yes, its title page really does proclaim "A new era of responsibility." Are these guys are trying to outdo themselves on doublethink or what?
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble by Catherine Austin Fitts
03-17-2009
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solari.com via Rense.com
Alan Greenspan is a liar. The Federal Reserve and its long standing partner, the US Treasury, engineered the housing bubble, including the fraudulent inducement of America as part of a financial coup d’etat.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble by Catherine Austin Fitts
03-17-2009
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solari.com via Rense.com
Alan Greenspan is a liar. The Federal Reserve and its long standing partner, the US Treasury, engineered the housing bubble, including the fraudulent inducement of America as part of a financial coup d’etat.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • History
RIGHTS-VIETNAM: End of the Road for Agent Orange Victims?
03-17-2009
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ipsnews via Rense.com
U.S. courts have ruled that no link has been established between Agent Orange’s active ingredient, the highly toxic dioxin, and the birth defects claimed. Both victims and the Vietnamese government claim otherwise.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • History
RIGHTS-VIETNAM: End of the Road for Agent Orange Victims?
03-17-2009
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ipsnews via Rense.com
U.S. courts have ruled that no link has been established between Agent Orange’s active ingredient, the highly toxic dioxin, and the birth defects claimed. Both victims and the Vietnamese government claim otherwise.
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Ed Vallejo
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