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Date Sent: 2009-04-13
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 13, 2009 AM edition |
President of Israel Threatens Strike on Iran -- China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds
Treasury Directs GM to Prepare for Bankruptcy -- Ireland: Ravaged by Debt and Deflation -- How SEALs Carried Out Their Mission -- Pakistan militants torch Afghan supplies -- Foreclosure Sales Stalled by Red Tape -- Thai State of Emergency Sparks More Unrest -- Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants -- VA has more POWs in treatment than actual POWs military has record of -- Police admit Spying on residents from park! -- Merchant Captains Comment On Piracy: "Give Us Mounted Machine Guns"
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Cabrera wins Masters in playoff for his 2nd major
04-12-2009
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AP
The cheers came from every corner of Augusta National, the kind of mayhem that had been missing at the Masters. The last one was for Angel Cabrera, a most unlikely champion.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Treasury Directs GM to Prepare for Bankruptcy Filing
04-12-2009
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CNBC.com
The Treasury Department is directing General Motors to lay the groundwork for a bankruptcy filing by a June 1 deadline, despite GM's public contention that it could still reorganize outside court, people with knowledge of the plans said during th
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs: Can't you smell that smell
04-12-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
Nobody is entitled to be paid twice for the same risk and reap what amounts to a windfall profit by quite literally engineering a multi-billion dollar transfer of funds from the Taxpayer to the firm!
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
President of Israel Threatens Strike on Iran
04-12-2009
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Jerusalem Post
While refusing to go into detail about the military option to foil Iran's nuclear program, Peres did say that Israel couldn't carry out any strike against the Islamic republic without America.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Ireland: Ravaged by Debt and Deflation
04-12-2009
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telegraph.co.uk/finance/
This is torture for a debtors' economy. You can survive deflation; you can survive debt; but Irving Fisher taught us in his 1933 treatise "Debt Deflation causes of Great Depressions" that the two together will eat you alive.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Islands at Risk - Genetic Engineering in Hawaii
04-12-2009
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Earth Justice
Despite the threat of contamination, the consequences of experimenting with our food supply and environment are being hidden like the crops themselves.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Military
How SEALs Carried Out Their Mission
04-12-2009
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Washington Post
U.S. military observers believed that Phillips was about to be shot. SEAL snipers, who were positioned on a deck at the stern of the Bainbridge, an area known as the fantail, had the three pirates in their sights. The on-scene commander gave the SEAL
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rescue Fuels Debate Over Arming Crews
04-12-2009
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NY Times
A spate of attacks on ships off Somalia and the rescue Sunday of an American captain held hostage by pirates have reinvigorated a long-simmering debate over whether the crews of commercial vessels should be armed.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds
04-12-2009
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NY Times
Reversing its role as the world’s fastest-growing buyer of United States Treasuries and other foreign bonds, the Chinese government actually sold bonds heavily in January and February before resuming purchases in March.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pakistan militants torch Afghan supplies
04-12-2009
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Reuters
Taliban militants set fire to 10 container trucks carrying supplies to Western forces in in a pre-dawn attack near land-locked Afghanistan exposing the vulnerability of a vital transport link for U.S. and other foreign troops battling the Taliban.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Pentagon Prioritizes Pursuit Of Alternative Fuel Sources
04-12-2009
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Washington Post
To help reduce consumption, the Pentagon is using $300 million of the $7.4 billion it received from the economic stimulus package to accelerate existing programs for developing alternative fuels and saving energy.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure Sales Stalled by Red Tape
04-12-2009
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Washington Post
"It's unbelievable. With all we hear about all the homes out there that need to be sold, I have to call my congressman in order to purchase a house," Garcia said. "If that's the process, there's no way we're going to cl
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Thai State of Emergency Sparks More Unrest
04-12-2009
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Washington Post
Thailand slid perilously close to chaos Sunday when opposition protesters called the government's decision to announce a state of emergency in Bangkok "a declaration of war against the people of Thailand." The state of emergency bans
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
A Possible Step Toward Setting the Biological Clock
04-12-2009
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Washington Post
Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will ever have.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants
04-12-2009
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AP
Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native, mentally ill and never able to read or write, signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mummies found in ancient Egypt burial chamber
04-12-2009
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AFP
Archaeologists working in an Egyptian oasis have found a necropolis containing dozens of brightly painted mummies dating back as far as 4,000 years. "The mission found dozens of mummies in 53 rock-hewn tombs dating to the Middle Kingdom"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Ship carrying gold and silver sinks off Argentina - or does it?
4-12-2009
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AP
Why did the crew members ditch the craft when it would have been safer to stay aboard. And why was an old trawler built in 1979 was being used to transport gold and silver in the first place. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • TAXES: State
Calif. outs biggest celebrity tax-evaders: Sinbad & Dionne Warwick
4-12-2009
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AP
In the land of Hollywood, the state understands celebrities need the public's approval as much as gov't does. So when celebrities don't respect the state's authoritay,...the state plays "PR Battleship".
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Military
VA has more POWs in treatment than actual POWs military has record of.
4-12-2009
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AP
There are only 21POWs from the first Gulf War in 1991, yet the VA is paying disability benefits to 286. Of about 550 VietNam POWs, over 960 are receiving payments.
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Food
Pressure canning beans for food storage - Video
04-12-2009
Short video showing the basics of pressure canning green beans. One of the goals to work for with self-sufficiency, homesteading and/or preparedness is growing and putting up (preserving) enough food to last from one season to the next.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Easter
04-12-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
"I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." -John 12:46
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News Link • World News
Truckers Unwittingly Used to Transport Dangerous Avian Flu Materials?
04-12-2009
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Health Freedom USA
Information has been provided to us by a Natural Solutions Foundation supporter who lives in the region in which she has gathered the information that you can read below. It is highly disturbing, not only because of the contents
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Now Is Not The Time For Gun Control
04/11/2009
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CBS News
The California senator who authored the nation's now-lapsed 1994 ban on assault weapons says she will hold off trying to renew that ban. Is 2010 a re-election year for Sen. Feinstein?
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • TERRORISM
Merchant Captains Comment On Piracy: "Give Us Mounted Machineguns"
4-12-2009
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Wall Street Journal
Merchant seamen want to arm themselves, but their "leaders" in the Maryland-based Seafarers Union oppose the idea.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Advertisers Backing Away From 'Family Guy' Raunch
04-12-2009
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World Net Daily
A campaign by pro-family groups over offensive and obscene content in the "Family Guy" cartoon program on the Fox television network has reached its target: the advertisers. (VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY! - Ed)
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Ed Vallejo
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