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Date Sent: 2009-05-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, May 8, 2009 AM edition |
CIA: Pelosi Knew of 'Enhanced Interrogations' -- Obama Releases $3.4 Trillion Budget Plan
Feds Give BofA And Citi Given 30 Days To Fire Their CEOs -- Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion -- AG Eric Holder says he approved Clinton-era renditions -- Afghanistan war costs to top Iraq by 2010 -- New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns -- Computer hard drive sold on eBay 'had details of top secret US missile defense system' -- Iran's nuclear program strictly energy related -- Free cars for the poor -- The Southern Avenger Asks “Is Secession Crazy?” -- NRC Study Calls for Covert “Cyberattack” Against “Non-state” Enemies -- Poor Treasury Auction hits Wall Street: China missing? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers -- Goldman’s latest bonus bears the mark of the beast -- 'I'm very serious about running,' Ron Paul's son Rand Paul says -- How Bankers Seized America through Liars Loans and Accounting Fraud -- U.S. cities need a National Bailout Agency -- Virgin sees space tourism as just the beginning -- Chrysler Restructuring Plan a Power Grab -- Is Marijuana Legalization a Big Government Plot? -- MSM Ignores Christian Kid Patriot Act Victim -- Dole sued over links to Colombian death squads -- Trial drugs 'reverse' Alzheimer's
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News Link • Torture
CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'
05-07-2009
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Washington Post
Intelligence officials released documents saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was briefed about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, contradicting her repeated statements she was never told
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fed Determines Banks Need $74.6 billion in Fantasyland Scenario, $599 Billion in Cakewalk Scenario
05-07-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
The banks were insolvent and many still are. The Fed has thrown $trillions at this mess and the banks remain short of capital.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Feds Give BofA And Citi 30 Days To Fire Their CEOs
05-07-2009
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Clusterstock
The results of the stress test are due to be released at 5:00 PM to ensure minimum news cycle impact, and the Feds have released a statement on what to expect. By this point, there's been so much leaking and throat clearing, it almost seems like
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
05-08-2008
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Danger Room
The Pentagon’s secret operations, including the intelligence budgets nested inside, “roughly equal in magnitude to the entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan,”
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Obama Administration
AG Eric Holder says he approved Clinton-era renditions
05-07-2009
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Rawstory
Under fire from Republicans, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that he had approved of rendition " essentially, legalized kidnapping " apparently more than once during his tenure as President Bill Clinton’s deputy attorney general
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghanistan war costs to top Iraq by 2010
05-07-2009
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AFP
The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed. On top of the basic defense budget of $533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 13
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
New York Fed chairman Friedman abruptly resigns
05-07-2009
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Raw Story
Stephen Friedman, chairman of the board at the Federal Reserve bank of New York, abruptly resigned, days after his approval of a request by Goldman Sachs was in violation of policy because of his considerable holdings in Goldman shares.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Computer hard drive sold on eBay 'had details of top secret US missile defense system'
05-07-2009
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Daily Mail
Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defense system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. The test launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD ground to air missile defence system, used to shoot down Sc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran's nuclear program strictly energy related
05-07-2009
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Washington Times
Iran has dramatically increased the amount of low-enriched uranium produced by its growing number of centrifuges that are part of its nuclear fuel production system.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Free cars for the poor
05-07-2009
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Boston Herald
Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
NRC Study Calls for Covert “Cyberattack” Against “Non-state” Enemies
05-08-2008
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Black Listed News
The National Research Council is pushing for the offensive use of “cyberattack” against enemies foreign and domestic. “The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyberattack by the United States
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • WAR: About that War
North Korea vows to bolster nuclear arsenal
05-07-2009
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AP
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) " North Korea has accused the Obama administration of hostility and is vowing to bolster its nuclear arsenal.
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Reported by:
Xander Holman
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Post-Mormon Panel Discussion
05-07-2009
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first May meeting on the 14th at a new meeting location, Phoenix Objectivists will be joined by 3 representatives from PostMormon.org for a panel discussion about the group and their activities.
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Jesus’ Mother and Ours
05-07-2009
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Christine Smith's Blog
As Mother’s Day approaches, a message for all, but especially for those whose loving mother is no longer with them on earth, and those whom who never had a loving relationship with their biological mother.
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Christine -
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Event Hiring for May 13th
05-07-2009
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Craigslist
I am looking for Clean Cut Presentable people to work an event next wedensday (May 13th) at ASU! You will be required to wear light colored nice khaki pants, dark belt and we will provide a shirt. :)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente: Green Shoots or Greatest Depression?
05-07-2009
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Rense.com
The greater their failure, the bolder they become. The more they lose, the more they take. The greater the chaos, the more control they exact. The bigger they fail, the harder we fall.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Poor Treasury Auction hits Wall Street: China missing?
05-07-2009
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reuters.com/
"The auction is big news because now it's showing that maybe the Chinese don't want our bonds. If the cost of capital for the United States becomes more expensive, then the recession is going to take that much longer to get out of,"
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Rep. Linda Sanchez Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers
05-07-2009
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wired.com/
Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated and hostile behavior, shall b
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bailouts
666: Goldman’s latest bonus bears the mark of the beast
05-07-2009
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The Independent
Something strange is stirring. Even the young are joining the chorus of concern that this tarnished giant is part of a financial oligarchy that holds the US in its grip,
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
'I'm very serious about running,' Ron Paul's son Rand Paul says
05-07-2009
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CNN (h/t T. Costanzo)
The son of former Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul said Monday that he is primed to mount a bid for the Kentucky Senate seat currently occupied by GOP Sen. Jim Bunning.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
How Bankers Seized America through Liars Loans and Accounting Fraud
05-07-2009
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Speak Truth 2 Power
I have never ceased wondering how many people lied to get a loan that they simply could not afford. This video explains how and why the bankers used this outrageous loan qualification process.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
You Wanted a Smoking Gun? Here It Is.
05-07-2009
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riseupforamerica.com via GVMM Newsletter
Something as dramatic as citizens themselves deciding to take action by forming Grand Juries to indict a President is certain to stir up emotions on both sides of the issue.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
U.S. cities need national bailout agency
05-07-2009
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Reuters
The architect of the 1970s financial rescue of New York City said on Wednesday the federal government should create a powerful national agency to bail out dozens of floundering U.S. cities.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
For sale: tropical islands at recession-friendly prices
05-07-2009
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Reuters
Global real estate agency Coldwell Banker's Capricorn Coast branch is offering 9 islands, some with luxury mansions and other amenities, around the Great Barrier Reef with prices starting at A$1.3 million ($962,000) and up to A$90 million ($67 mi
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin sees space tourism as just the beginning
05-07-2009
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Reuters
Long-haul trips could be made in spaceships instead of planes in 20 years' time if Virgin's efforts to commercialize space travel succeed, the president of Virgin Galactic told Reuters in an interview.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Property Rights
Chrysler Restructuring Plan a Power Grab
05-07-2009
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RealClearPolitics
The positions of lenders are eviscerated to give control to the union trust and the government. The emergent companies are given market preference through taxpayer financing and government warrantee guarantees.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Is Marijuana Legalization a Big Government Plot?
05-07-2009
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Takimag / Daniel Flynn
Legalization has become the hobby horse of frustrated statists anxious for power over one of the last remaining industries free from Big Brother’s guiding hand and a cut of profits that are currently out of their grasp.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
MSM Ignores Christian Kid Patriot Act Victim
05-07-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
A sixteen year old homeschooled Christian kid has been held by the Feds for over sixty days without being charged--on the slimmest of slim evidence--all under the authority of the Patriot Act. Where is the mainstream media, which always jumped all ov
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • World News
Dole sued over links to Colombian death squads
05-07-2009
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Press TV
Dole Food Company is being sued by the families of 57 people allegedly murdered by paramilitaries hired by the US firm at its banana plantations in Colombia.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Energy
Konarka & Arch Aluminum Sign Development Deal
05-07-2009
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www.renewableenergyworld.com
In October 2008, Konarka opened the largest roll-to-roll flexible thin film solar manufacturing facility in the world, preparing for the commercialization and mass production of its solar material
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
List of Active Fission and Fusion Projects
05-07-2009
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arclein
This is a welcome list of the high energy research projects currently underway and allows us to catch up on what is afoot. Serious money is been now devoted to the field and we can expect to see more avenues explored. I have reposted on some of these
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robert klein
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