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Date Sent: 2009-04-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 30, 2009 PM edition |
Chrysler will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy -- Britain ends combat operations in Iraq
Gates urges Congress to approve war money fast -- Border Patrol agents ordered NOT to wear protective masks against Mexican swine flu! -- William Black: Don't Trust Earnings, Big Banks, Stress Test or Geithner -- Unemployment Claims: Record Continued Claims of 6,271,000 -- Condoleezza Rice: When the president approves it, it is not illegal -- Denninger: Heads I Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose! -- New Hampshire man remains in jail after filming inside courthouse -- Secret DPS center prepared to deal with terrorism, other threats -- The Motorhome Diaries visit Phoenix! -- US Rep. Franks: Close Border Because Of Swine Flu -- Infowars.com Under Sophisticated Denial of Service Attack -- Was the war in Iraq worthwhile? -- Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gates urges Congress to approve war money fast
04-30-2009
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Reuters
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates pressed Congress to quickly approve $83.4 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for aid to Pakistan. Gates told lawmakers that money used to support Pakistan, Afghanistan's neighbor which is facing a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Border Patrol agents ordered NOT to wear protective masks against Mexican swine flu!
04-30-2009
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ABC 10 News (CA) via YouTube via ALIPAC e-mail
I'm sorry but if I tried to protect myself at work and was told I wasn't allowed to I WOULDN'T WORK THERE!!! Is it just me? - Ed
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chrysler will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
04-30-2009
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AP
Chrysler will file for bankruptcy after talks with a small group of creditors crumbled just a day before a government deadline for the automaker to come up with a restructuring plan, President Barack Obama said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Volcker Says Economy is ‘Leveling Off’ even though GDP Shrinks Most in 50 Years
04-30-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The Case for an "L" Shaped Recession (or series of recessions) is still very much alive.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
SP Futures Hourly Charts: Frauds R' US
04-30-2009
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Jessescrossradscafe.blogspot.com
You are not wrong; you are not alone in your thoughts. Madness is madnesss, no matter how popular it may be, appearing attractive, clever, well-presented, and enticing in the short term.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
William Black: Don't Trust Earnings, Big Banks, Stress Test or Geithner
04-30-2009
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YouTube.com
William Black tells it like it is.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Condoleezza Rice: When the president approves it, it is not illegal
04-30-2009
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RawStory.com
When Stanford University students recently asked former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about waterboarding and torture, her response was uncannily close to Richard Nixon’s infamous claim, “When the president does it
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment Claims: Record Continued Claims of 6,271,000
04-30-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending April 18 was 6,271,000, an increase of 133,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 6,138,000
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Denninger: Heads I Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose!
04-30-2009
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market-ticker.denninger.net/
Oh that's nice. So now we're going to offer 6:1 (or more) leverage to these hedge funds with non-recourse financing provided by the FDIC, and if something goes wrong the taxpayer will eat the balance.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
New Hampshire man remains in jail after filming inside courthouse
04-30-2009
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Photography Is Not A Crime
It’s been 17 days since Sam Dodson was arrested for filming inside a New Hampshire courthouse and his jailers have yet to release him. All because he has refused to provide them with his legal name, something he says is his Constitutional right.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chrysler lender talks break off
04-30-2009
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AP
Talks between Chrysler LLC's lenders and the Treasury Department to reduce the automaker's $6.9 billion in secured debt and keep it out of bankruptcy protection have disintegrated, a person familiar with the talks said early Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Secret DPS center prepared to deal with terrorism, other threats
04-30-2009
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Tri-Valley Dispatch
The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, was established at a secret location in Phoenix under the auspices of DPS. One of the things that the DPS Director did was to build up AcTIC to a point where it's more than a statewide homeland se
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Britain ends combat operations in Iraq
04-30-2009
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AP
"Today marks the closing chapter of the combat mission in Iraq. The flag of 20 Armoured Brigade will be lowered as British combat patrols in Basra come to an end and our armed forces prepare to draw down."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Stephen Hawking Jokes
04-23-2009
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SciScoop Science
Cambridge University’s renowned Professor Stephen Hawking is making a good recovery in Addenbrooke’s Hospital after a chest infection. His medical status led to a spate of politically incorrect jokes hinging on the fact he uses a voice synsynthesiser
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Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Police State
Double Jeopardy and the Matthew Shepard Act
04-30-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Yesterday the House passed a law extending federal hate crime protection to gays and lesbians. Besides the usual problem that it enhances the punishment of crimes because the defendant holds unpopular political beliefs--it extends federal power over
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Franks: Close Border Because Of Swine Flu
04/29/2009
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By Jeff Butera, Reporter, KPHO.com
PHOENIX -- Some Arizona lawmakers are calling for federal officials to close the U.S.-Mexico border -- or at least consider it as an option -- to prevent the spread of swine flu. A spokesman for Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said Wednesday night that F
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Environment
Lomborg on Cutting CO2 Emissions
04-30-2009
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arclein
Kyoto-style emissions cuts can only ever be an expensive distraction from the real business of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. The fact is, carbon remains the only way for developing countries to work their way out of poverty. Coal burning provid
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robert klein
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News Link • New World Order
Infowars.com Under Sophisticated Denial of Service Attack
04-29-2009
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infowars.com
Earlier this evening, Alex Jones’ flagship website, Infowars.com, came under a concerted denial of service (DoS) attack. The site was down for more than two hours.
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Xander Holman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Was the war in Iraq worthwhile?
04-29-2009
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Mark Yannone
One retired American general weighs the costs against the benefit of holding a government accountable for its actions and answers without hesitation. Others may disagree with the general.
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News Link • World News
Will NorthCom take over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
04-30-2009
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The Progressive
The swine flu outbreak raises a lot of fears.Here’s one you might not have thought of yet: The Pentagon may be taking over more and more of our civil society in this crisis.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Free Speech
U.S. House Passes Hate Crime Legislation
04-30-2009
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Reuters
On a vote of 249-175, the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill backed by the new Democratic White House to broaden such laws by classifying as “hate crimes”
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Jim Stachowiak
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