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Date Sent: 2009-06-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 3, 2009 PM edition |
Bernanke: Start work now to curb budget deficit! -- Bin Laden threatens Americans in new tape
More Woes for UK's PM as Fourth Minister Resigns -- From porn to political chaos, UK expenses row spreads -- U.S. recovery hopes face doubts on jobs, mortgages -- Foreclosures Unending -- New U.S. Afghan war strategy will cost billions, take years -- Reporters With Pom-Poms Cheerleading the Recovery -- Paul Craig Roberts: As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff ... -- In another switch, Obama now open to taxing healthcare benefits -- Julian Robertson: “Depression and Explosive Inflation” Possible
-- Marines Train “Civilians” to Accept Coming Military Rule -- US
consumer confidence falls -- FIFTY MILLION RUBY RIDGE’S - by Dave
Hodges -- US to sell 'bunker buster' bombs to South Korea -- Food crisis & the global land grab
AZ: Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan in Phoenix tomorrow and Friday
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: start work now to curb budget deficit
06-03-2009
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AP
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is urging Congress and the Obama administration to start plotting a strategy to curb record-high U.S. budget deficits. Failing to do so could eventually erode investor confidence and endanger the economy's prospects for long-term health, he said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bin Laden threatens Americans in new tape
06-03-2009
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AP
Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio tape, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
More Woes for Brown as Fourth Minister Resigns
06-03-2009
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Washington Post
UK's Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a political nightmare with the resignation of his fourth government minister in 2 days on the eve of local and European elections in which his Labor Party appeared headed for perhaps its worst defeat in history.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
From porn to political chaos, UK expenses row spreads
06-03-2009
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Reuters
In March, the husband of Britain's interior minister and one of the most powerful politicians in the country, had to publicly apologize for charging 2 pornographic films he watched at home to his wife's parliamentary expenses. Then,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Chinese pottery may be earliest discovered
06-03-2009
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China Daily
Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people. The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 years ago,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Liberty Rider Michael Maresco now in WV
06-03-2009
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www.libertyrider.com
Crossing the mountains of PA and descending in WV, the Liberty Rider suffers a near disaster when a trailer wheel dismounts at high speed! Unlike the picture you see, Liberty Rider is on a bicycle not a motorcycle.
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Found Zero
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ADP Employer Services: Department of Records Revision
06-03-2009
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Jessescrossradscafe.blogspot.com
This pervasive pattern of 'good numbers' that result in stock market rallies and the massaging of public opinion, only to be replaced by downward revisions thirty days later, with little notice or quote, is cynical manipulation of the media at best, and a dangerous...
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Jack Gregson
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Opinion • Environment
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Our Troubled Country: Examples Abound Around the World
06-03-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
“We must alert and organize the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. recovery hopes face doubts on jobs, mortgages
06-03-2009
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Reuters
The United States may have hit a bump on the road to economic recovery, according to data with half a million private sector jobs lost in May and mortgage applications falling last week in the face of rising interest rates.
The reports illustrate the policy dilemma of the Federal Reserve, which has committed trillions of dollars to keep market interest rates low, only to watch them shoot higher in recent weeks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The National Debt Road Trip
05-15-2009
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10000 Pennies
How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And how did the national debt get so big anyway. This video tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip and seeing how fast different administrations have been traveling.
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Brian Umbarger
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Warns Deficits Threaten Financial Stability
06-03-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“Either cuts in spending or increases in taxes will be necessary to stabilize the fiscal situation,” Bernanke said in response to a question. “The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Foreclosures Unending
06-03-2009
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arclein
A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures. Unfortunately, there’s little evidence, so far, that the Obama administration’s anti-foreclosure plan will be able to stop it.
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robert klein
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News Link • WAR: About that War
New U.S. Afghan war strategy will cost billions, take years
06-03-2009
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McClatchy News
President Barack Obama's choice to take charge of the war in Afghanistan called "significant growth" of the Afghan army and national police the key to his strategy, but the annual cost of building and maintaining the existing Afghan force is more than four times larger than the entire Afghan economy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Reporters With Pom-Poms Cheerleading the Recovery
06-03-2009
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Counterpunch.com/
Rather, the reason that most homeowners aren’t buying a lot right now is the same reason that homeless people don’t buy a lot of things: they don’t have the money.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Paul Craig Roberts: As the Dollar Falls Off the Cliff ...
06-03-2009
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Counterpunch.com/
China sees it differently. It is obvious to Chinese officials that neither China nor the entire world has enough spare money to purchase $4 trillion of US Treasuries over the next two years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Jon Stewart: Can we stop buying sh**ty companies?
06-03-2009
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Rawstory video
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart doesn’t think that the American taxpayer got a very good deal by investing in General Motors.
“We gave you twenty billion dollars and you still declared bankruptcy,” Stewart mocked on his Daily Show Tuesday night, “we could have done that for free.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Ted Rall: It’s increasingly evident that Obama should resign
06-03-2009
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InfoWars.com
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists, he ought to step down now " before he drags us further into the abyss.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Marines Train “Civilians” to Accept Coming Military Rule
06-03-2009
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infowars
It is interesting the Marines characterized Flushing Meadows Park as “enemy territory.” In fact, according to our rulers and their military functionaries, the entire United States is “enemy territory” in need of martial law.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
In switch, Obama said open to taxing healthcare benefits
06-03-2009
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RawStory.com
President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president, according to senators who met with him Tuesday.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ABC Survey: US consumer confidence falls in latest week
06-03-2009
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Reuters.com/
ABC News said on Tuesday its weekly index on U.S. consumer confidence, after reaching a seven-month high in early May, fell in the latest week. The Consumer Comfort
Index dropped to -49 from -47 the prior week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Julian Robertson: “Depression and Explosive Inflation” Possible
06-03-2009
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optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com/
I think what we’re doing now will either fail, or it will result in unbelievably high inflation " and tragically, maybe both. That would mean a depression and explosive inflation, which is frightening.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Case-Shiller and CAR Housing Declines Since Peak - May Report
06-03-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In the 20 cities that Case-Shiller tracks prices have fallen from 11% (Dallas) to 53% (Phoenix). Price declines are highest in CA, NV, AZ, FL and Detroit. In all of the cities prices have now declined back to early 2000 prices
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Motivation
The Call of the Entrepreneur
06-03-2009
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www.calloftheentrepreneur.com/
The Call of the Entrepreneur tells the stories of three entrepreneurs:
* A failing dairy farmer in rural Evart, Michigan
* A merchant banker in New York City
* A refugee from Communist China
Reverend Robert Sirico, author of The Entrepreneurial Vocation, joins Michael Novak, George Gilder and other experts in exploring how entrepreneurs shape our world.
Learn how Brad Morgan turned a failing dairy farm into a thriving business. Morgan overcame the odds against him, creating value and wealth from the dirt under his feet.
Frank Hanna is a merchant banker who explains how financial engineering not only makes credit more widely available to entrepreneurs today but also played a crucial role in the discovery of America.
Jimmy Lai
Fleeing Communist China and leaving his family behind at a young age, Jimmy Lai took a chance on a better life in Hong Kong. Lai explains that entrepreneurs, when taking risks, are "dashing into hope."
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Thomas Costanzo
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Opinion • Environment
FIFTY MILLION RUBY RIDGE’S
06-03-2009
Dave Hodges
I have repeated myself over and over again. The global elite simply love global warming because it gives them the justification to regulate every single aspect of our lives.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Livermore Super Laser
06-03-2009
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arclein
This potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystal, weighing almost 800 pounds, was produced through a newly developed rapid-growth process that takes only two months, as opposed to two years using conventional methods. Each crystal is sliced into 40-centimeter-square crystal plates. More than 600 of these plates are needed for NIF.
A US weapons lab on Friday pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star.
The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Food crisis & the global land grab
6/03/09
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Farm Land Grab
(Old-fashion land grab) Governments and corporations are buying up farmland in other countries to grow their own food - or simply to make money....
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US to sell 'bunker buster' bombs to South Korea
6/02/09
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Telegraph co UK
America has agreed to sell "bunker-buster" bombs to South Korea capable of destroying underground facilities in North Korea. The laser-guided GBU-28 bombs were first used in 1990 during the Gulf War to destroy underground command centres in Iraq.
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
How Obama Revolution Came to America
6/06/09
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Accuracy In Media
Perceptions are being shaped through a combination of propaganda, disinformation, denial and deceit by the radical left, which has seized control of the Democrat Party.
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Anonymous Watchman
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