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Date Sent: 2009-03-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, March 20, 2009 PM edition |
US deficit to hit $1.8 trillion this year -- Greenspan: US banks need large capital infusions
Bernanke says Fed has exit strategy from credit policy -- Former AIG Head Denies He Started Exec Bonuses -- Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference -- California economy worsens, unemployment at 10.5% -- Bernanke Says Exec Compensation Must Be Monitored -- Trilateralists seek "improved" Russia ties -- Ron Paul on "Time"'s Top 100 pol -- Constitutionalists, Ron Paul Supporters and Real Terrorists - by Szandor Blestman -- Depleted Uranium Downgraded to Lowest Hazard Category -- Tulsa Urges Permission on Home Gardens -- Democrat introduces bill to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses -- General Fusion MTF Power Generation
AZ: Bob Schulz of We The People Returns to Phoenix this Sunday March 22nd!
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke says Fed has exit strategy from credit policy
03-20-2009
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Reuters
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed's buying of longer-dated U.S. Treasuries would "taper off" when the economy no longer needed help, allowing the Fed to cease its emergency support. [nice]
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Greenspan says U.S. banks need large capital infusions
03-20-2009
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Reuters
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said U.S. bank lending will not return to normal without a big injection of public or private capital. "The restoration of normal bank lending by U.S. banks will require a very large capital in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Department of Defense Succumbs to Pressure, Reverses Stance on Selling Once-Fired Brass (YAY!)
03-20-2009
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nationalgunrights.org via e-mail from Dean T.
After working with Armed Services Committee Member Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO)... we're happy to hear that the Department of Defense has decided to rescind it's ban on the sale of once-fired military brass.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Humor
World Net Daily 'Joke of the Day'
03-20-2009
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World Net Daily
It took awhile, but the final numbers are in from the inauguration.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Conspiracies
Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference
03/20/2009
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Council on Foreign Relations
"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday...I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California economy worsens, unemployment at 10.5%
03-20-2009
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Reuters
California's unemployment rate increased to 10.5% in February from 10.1% in January as the most populous state's economy worsened, official data showed. California's February jobless rate far exceeded both the state's 6.2% rate a year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke Says Exec Compensation Must Be Monitored
03-20-2009
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AP
Banking regulators have observed that "poorly designed compensation policies can create perverse incentives that can ultimately jeopardize the health of the banking organization," Bernanke told a meeting of smaller "community" ban
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke tries to soothe small banks' bailout anger
03-20-2009
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Reuters
The United States needs a safer way to shut down large nonbank financial firms without destabilizing the entire financial system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Trilateralists seek "improved" Russia ties
03-20-2009
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AP
Some of the biggest names in U.S. foreign policy of the past decades met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday, in an effort to improve frosty relations that experts say could threaten many U.S. foreign policy goals.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why the Meltdown Should Have Surprised No One
03-19-2009
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Ludwig von Mises Institute
76-minute video of keynote speech by Peter Schiff at the 2009 annual Austrian Scholars Conference at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is Gold Really the Safest Investment?
03-20-2009
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Time Magazine
Mainstream hit piece trying to convince you that paper dollars are better.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • TERRORISM
Constitutionalists, Ron Paul Supporters and Real Terrorists by Szandor Blestman
03-20-2009
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American Chronicle via e-mail from Mr. Blestman
"Those of us who have awakened and wish to move forward with a liberty agenda confound the sensibilities of those who insist on regulating every aspect of our lives."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama will speak at ASU commencement in May
03-20-2009
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AzCentral.com
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at Arizona State University and two other colleges in May.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US deficit forecast to hit $1.8 trillion this year
03-20-2009
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AP
The US budget deficit for the current year will top $1.8 trillion under the latest estimates produced by congressional economists. The latest figures would shatter the previous record for a federal shortfall of $459 billion, set just last year.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
The Eden Machine and the Great Central Valley
03-20-2009
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arclein
It is also clear that ideally we need to start at the periphery of the drainage systems and slowly work our way inward. These are often beginning highlands and their restoration as active woodlands will capture and hold the sporadic rains. This will
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Depleted Uranium Downgraded to Lowest Hazard Category
03-20-2009
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Salt Lake City Tribune
U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson is demanding to know what's behind a decision by federal regulators to put depleted uranium in the lowest-hazard category for radioactive waste. Now they can ship it all to Utah.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Science
Antarctic Ice Coring
03-20-2009
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arclein
Scientists are particularly concerned about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which has collapsed with great regularity about every 40,000 years and is currently in an unstable state. If all the ice atop West Antarctica today melted, it would raise world
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robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Tulsa Urges Permission on Home Gardens
03-20-2009
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Tulsa World
A proposed zoning amendment that would allow the gardens “by right” doesn’t address what can be grown, he said. “Is there going to be someone that inspects what is growing?”
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
TR10 Liquid Metal Battery
03-20-2009
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arclein
This actually promises to be superior strategy when combined with large power output. Fit these into a grid, and it becomes simple to match demand on an as needed basis allowing optimization with all overages carried by the batteries.
And why was
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Juan Cole on the Colbert Report - 'Engaging Islam'
03-20-2009
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Colbert Report - Juan Cole
"As I was getting behind the desk I almost tripped on something, and looked down to find a . . . pitchfork. Gee, I thought, this will be a tough interview."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Democrat introduces bill to end mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses
03-20-2009
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RawStory.com
A California Democrat has introduced a bill in Congress that would end the practice of judges being forced to impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
General Fusion MTF Power Generation
03-20-2009
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arclein
The use of low-tech pneumatic rams in place of intrinsically expensive high power pulsed electrical systems reduces the cost of the energy delivered to the plasma by a factor of 10 making such a power plant commercially competitive even against the c
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robert klein
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