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Date Sent: 2009-05-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, May 28, 2009 PM edition |
Unreleased abuse photos depict rape of 'men and women'--JP Morgan: Losses on WaMu Credit Cards 24%
Roubini says U.S. economy may dip again next year -- Calif. wants
federal government to back its loans -- U.S. Inflation to Approach
Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says -- Furor grows over partisan car dealer
closings -- 1 in 8 US homeowners late paying or in foreclosure --
Pentagon Denies Report Iraq Prison Photos Show Rape -- Virginia Bans
Smiling at the DMV -- BART cop's testimony contradicted by video in
Oscar Grant shooting case -- Sen. Burris Insists There Was No
Pay-to-Play Scheme -- Secret cables may show doctors monitored CIA
torture -- Iraq redux? Obama seeks funds for Pakistan super-embassy --
Islamic charity leaders get 65-year jail terms -- State Trooper Stops
Ambulance Transporting Patient To Hospital & Assaults EMT --
French Climate Skeptic Eyed for Super Ministry -- The Ownership
Society: 7 Years Later -- April New Home Sales Fall 34% Year Over Year
-- US Weighs Single Agency to Regulate Banking Industry: The Federal
Reserve -- Unemployment Claims: Continued Claims at Record 6.79 Million
-- Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Hit Records on Job Cuts --
Jekyll Island Secret Liberty meeting video Part 2: Interviews
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News Link • Torture
Unreleased abuse photos depict the rape of 'men and women'
05-28-2009
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Daily Telegraph
"An American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner.
"A male translator apparently raping a male detainee.
"A female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JP Morgan Says Losses on WaMu Credit Cards Could Reach 24%
05-28-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
Folks, 24% is a simply breathtaking number for credit card losses, and JP Morgan is saying that is what it may see on its WaMu portfolio. Even keeling-over-and-dying Advanta is up to only 20% losses.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Roubini says U.S. economy may dip again next year
05-28-2009
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Reuters
Nouriel Roubini, the famously glum economist who predicted the financial crisis, said that while the recession in the US may well be over at the end of the year, another dip was still possible next year. "I still expect that economic growth in t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says
05-28-2009
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Bloomberg
The U.S. economy will enter “hyperinflation” approaching the levels in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates, investor Marc Faber said.
Prices may increase at rates “close to” Zimbabwe’s gains,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Calif. wants federal government to back its loans
05-28-2009
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AP
[California] with the worst credit rating in the nation is asking that Washington act as a sort of co-signer on the state's borrowing, to be backed up with money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings
05-28-2009
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Washington Examiner
Evidence is mounting that the Obama administration has systematically targeted for closing Chrysler dealers who contributed to Republicans. Among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and competitors to a dealership owned by former Clinto
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
1 in 8 US homeowners late paying or in foreclosure
05-28-2009
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Reuters
One of eight U.S. households with a mortgage ended the first quarter late on loan payments or in the foreclosure process in a crisis that will persist for at least another year until unemployment peaks, the Mortgage Bankers Association said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Robert Gates: The Bureaucrat Unbound
05-28-2009
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Time magazine
Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) was very concerned about anti-missile defense and especially a product dramatically called the Kinetic Energy Interceptor. To which Gates replied, in a manner so casually dismissive Franks seemed to shrivel in his seat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
BART cop's testimony contradicted by video in Oscar Grant shooting case
05-28-2009
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Mercury News
BART officer Marysol Domenici, under cross-examination by Deputy District Attorney, described a scene of "30 to 40 passengers" coming off the Dublin-bound train as she ran to assist her partner, Tony Pirone. However, surveillance video of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon Denies Report Iraq Prison Photos Show Rape
05-28-2009
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NY Times
[so why object to their release?] The Pentagon denied a British newspaper report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Barack Obama wants to block, include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Virginia Bans Smiling at the DMV
05-28-2009
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Washington Post
The agency would like to develop a facial recognition system that could compare customers' photographs over time to prevent fraud and identity theft. "To prepare for the possibility of future security enhancements, we're asking cu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Sen. Burris Insists There Was No Pay-to-Play Scheme
05-28-2009
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Washington Post
Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) denied he was involved in a pay-to-play scheme with allies of Gov. Blagojevich to help win appointment to a Senate seat. The statement came a day after the release of an FBI recording in which Burris is heard
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Secret cables may show doctors monitored CIA torture
05-28-2009
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Propublica
Medical personnel monitored the medical effects of the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah, the al-Qaida operative who was, according to government reports, subjected to the near-drowning at least 83 times
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iraq redux? Obama seeks funds for Pakistan super-embassy
05-28-2009
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McClatchy News
The U.S. is embarking on a $1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the Obama administration is making a costly, long-term commitment to war-torn South Asia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Islamic charity leaders get 65-year jail terms
05-28-2009
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Reuters
A U.S. judge on Wednesday handed down 65-year prison sentences to two founders of a U.S. Islamic charity convicted of illegally funneling $12.4 million to the [democratically elected in US promoted election] Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Ted Olson Challenges Constitutionality of Proposition 8
05-28-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
With Ted Olson, a founder of the Federalist Society, Dubya's lead attorney in Bush v. Gore, and Solicitor General from 2001 to 2004, going to court to constitutionally challenge and stop Proposition 8, it's about time for conservatives to do
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Science
Giant Cod and Whales
05-28-2009
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arclein
The revolution in fishing first came in the 1600s, when boaters began taking their vessels out in pairs to fish with nets. Then, large scale fisheries began to take hold in the 1800s.
"The impact of early fisheries was substantial," Holm
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
French Climate Skeptic Eyed for Super Ministry
05-28-2009
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arclein
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's appears ready to appoint renowned geophysicist and former socialist party leader Dr. Claude Allegre " France's most outspoken global warming skeptic -- as the new super-ministry of industry and innovation
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robert klein
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
State Trooper Stops Ambulance Transporting Patient To Hospital & Assaults EMT
05-28-2009
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KTUL.com
White says the officer was in a rage when he approached them & yelled "get your a-- back here! I am giving you a ticket for failure to yield." White says he told the trooper they had a patient in the ambulance and that they were on their wa
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sotomayor on the Supreme Court: A Gun-grabber’s Dream Come True
05-28-2009
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InfoWars.com
Sotomayor wrote a these entitled “Deadly Obsession: American Gun Culture.” In the text, Sotomayor makes the argument that the Second Amendment does not actually afford individual citizens the right to bear arms. She believes only the military has thi
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
The Ownership Society: Seven Years Later
05-28-2009
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YouTube.com
This is video of George Bush introducing 'The Ownership Society' on May 17, 2002. See for yourself the housing bubble being created so it would later implode.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
A redneck view of the Obamarama
05-28-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
"It don't matter who gets to warm his butt in the White House chair," says a West Virginia trucker. "The top dogs eat high on the hog and the little dogs eat the tails and ears. That's what them bailouts is all about, and that*
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate: Top-Rated Mortgage Debt May Face Rating Cut
05-28-2009
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Bloomberg.com
As much as 90 percent of so-called super senior commercial- mortgage backed bonds sold in 2007 may be affected as the ratings firm changes how it assesses the debt, New York-based S&P said today...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Denninger: The Curtains Are On Fire
05-28-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
What's worse is that the banks are charging off (that is, disposing as worthless) a huge amount and yet even that is not slowing down the bad loan count - they're going delinquent faster than the banks are charging them off.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
April New Home Sales Fall 34% Year Over Year
05-28-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
Sales of new one-family houses in April 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 352,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
U.S. Weighs Single Agency to Regulate Banking Industry: The Federal Reserve
05-28-2009
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washingtonpost.com/
They favor vesting the Federal Reserve with new powers as a systemic risk regulator, with broad responsibility for detecting threats to the financial system. The powers would include oversight of previously unregulated markets, such as the derivative
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment Claims: Continued Claims at Record 6.79 Million
05-28-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Continued claims are now at 6.79 million - an all time record. This is 5.1% of covered employment.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Mortgage Delinquencies, Foreclosures Hit Records on Job Cuts
05-28-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“If people don’t have a paycheck they can’t support a mortgage,” Jay Brinkmann, the MBA’s chief economist, said in an interview. “The longer the recession lasts the more people run through their savings reserves, leading to higher delinquencies...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Jekyll Island Secret Liberty meeting Part 2. Interview with Micheal Badnerick and more.
5-21-09
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www.LCLReport.com
We find out more details about what was really going on behind closed doors with interviews from Micheal Badnerick, Edward Griffin and Catherine Bleish.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Space Debris
05-28-2009
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arclein
Space debris remediation, i.e. active debris removal from orbit, was identified as the next necessary step. Several contributions addressed technical and operational aspects of implementing such measures.
In the area of Hypervelocity Impacts and P
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robert klein
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