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Date Sent: 2009-06-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 23, 2009 PM edition |
Moody's: US credit rating "solid triple-A" -- Confidential memo: US plan to provoke Iraq invasion
Judge Orders Guantanamo Detainee Freed -- Court OKs dumping toxic waste into lake -- Obama's poll numbers start to wilt -- Nancy Pelosi bringing climate change bill to floor -- Ford and Nissan to tap government retool loans -- Kyrgyzstan Allows Limited U.S. Access -- Las Vegas CRE: Swelling default, foreclosure figures ominous -- Boeing delays Dreamliner for fifth time -- Retreat of the Shadow Lenders -- 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public -- Governor Schwarzenegger says “hasta la vista” to court reporters -- Canada’s Swine Flu Vaccination Plan -- The Southern Avenger “No Intervention in Iran” -- Interventionism and Gun Control in Iran - by Jacob Hornberger -- Family Angry After Police Target Wrong House -- Inside the Mind of a Prohibitionist -- GAO Says those on terrorist watch list could buy firearms -- Iran Police Quash Rally as Revolutionary Guards Warn Protesters
Johnny Carson's "Tonight" show sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. credit rating a "solid triple-A": Moody's
06-23-2009
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service said the U.S. government's
triple-A credit rating was safe but added that it could be at risk if
Washington were unable to bring its public debt back to a downward
trajectory. Financial markets have repeatedly been spooked this year by concern
that triple-A rated governments such as the United States and Britain
could face credit ratin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq
06-22-2009
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London Obsever
A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony
Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to
war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive
issue for the official inquiry into the UK’s role in toppling Saddam
Hussein.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Judge Orders Guantanamo Detainee Freed
06-23-2009
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AP
A federal judge ordered a Guantanamo detainee released after
chastising prosecutors for claiming a man tortured, imprisoned and
abandoned by Al Qaeda and the Taliban could be working for them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Court OKs dumping gold mine waste in lake
06-23-2009
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AP
A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acre
lake, although the material will kill all of the lake's fish.
The court said that the federal government acted legally in
declaring the waste left after metals are extracted from the ore as
"fill material"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Nissan to make electric cars in US
06-23-2009
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RawStory.com
Under the plan, Nissan will build electric-car assembly lines at a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, the location of Nissan North America Inc.'s headquarters, the newspaper said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's poll numbers start to wilt
06-23-2009
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AP
Eroding confidence in President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy
and ability to control spending has caused his approval ratings to wilt
to their lowest levels since he took office, according to a spate of
recent polls, a sign of political weakness that comes just as he most
needs leverage on Capitol Hill.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Nancy Pelosi to bring climate change bill to floor
06-23-2009
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Politico
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
will roll the dice on a top priority this week, bringing a contentious
climate change bill to the floor despite strong misgivings from her
rank-and-file and an outspoken chairman who remains a major impediment.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Ford and Nissan to tap government retool loans
06-23-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. government plans to disclose that Ford Motor Co, Tesla Motors
Inc and Nissan Motor Co will be among the beneficiaries of a $25
billion loan program created by Congress to help auto makers retool
factories for advanced-technology vehicles, the Wall Street Journal
said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Brazilian town turning human waste into clean energy
06-23-2009
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AFP
Nothing -- literally -- goes to waste. The "mud" left
over from the bio-digesting process can be used as fertilizer for crops
and the remaining water, now cleaned of noxious elements, is emptied
back into neighboring rivers.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Food storage began well before farming
06-23-2009
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AP
People were storing grain long before they learned to domesticate
crops, a new study indicates. A structure used as a food granary
discovered in recent excavations in Jordan dates to about 11,300 years
ago.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Intact ancient tomb uncovered in Bethlehem
06-23-2009
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AP
Workers renovating a house in the traditional town of Jesus' birth
accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb containing clay pots,
plates, beads and the bones of two humans, a Palestinian antiquities
official said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix: 45,000 Foreclosures and Rising - a tale of hidden inventory
06-23-2009
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AZcentral.com
There's a widespread belief that banks are purposely limiting the flow of foreclosure homes onto the market, which helps prevent home prices from sliding even further but could prolong the market's long-term recovery.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Benton County neighbors fear dangers of TVA's coal ash
06-23-09
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Tennessean
A Duke University report concluded earlier this year that exposure to radiation- and arsenic-containing particles in the ash there could have severe health implications.
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Melinda Carey
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News Link • Anthropology
'Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women'
06-23-2009
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independent.co.uk/
For someone who has seen three different centuries, six monarchs, two world wars (and 18 world cups), becoming the oldest living man is, perhaps, something of a non-event.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Kyrgyzstan Allows Limited U.S. Access
06-23-2009
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Washington Post
Kyrgyz officials said the US could use the base in Central
Asia as a transit center to supply NATO forces in Afghanistan. It
appeared that the United States had sharply increased the rent that it
paid to avoid complete closure.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Las Vegas CRE: Swelling default, foreclosure figures ominous
06-23-2009
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lasvegassun.com/
Since the first of the year, lenders have filed default notices against 323 properties in the valley, according to Nevada Title Co.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Retreat of the Shadow Lenders
06-23-2009
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arclein
The point is that only the US government can print the currency to accommodate this shift back to conservative lending practices. It is US denominated debt after all. And they did want to be the world’s reserve currency. That means they now get to establish global banking standards and get to own an incredible amount of bank paper throughout the world. Otherwise, an alternative will be found and we will likely repeat this all over again in about twenty to forty years in a different form of currency. The US currency bubble will then continue to contract and retreat into the US local market as deleveraging contracts the supply.
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News Link • Energy
On the Trail of a Solar-Powered Air Conditioning for the 21st Century
06-23-2009
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spiegel.de/international/
The core of the system is the so-called Schukey motor. It produces one kilowatt hour of coolness for five cents. By way of contrast, conventional air conditioners burn through 12 to 14 cents per kilowatt hour.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Seas Rising
06-23-2009
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arclein
And yes, if this were to continue at this present temperature range it is plausible to anticipate an inch of rise per decade until the Greenland sheet is eliminated. Of course, Mother Nature is already signaling the opposite.
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robert klein
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News Link • Housing
Smell the Coffee: Seasonal Homes Sales Trend
06-23-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
An emailer asks: “Why do you diss the monthly numbers when they are improving?” Well, because they are not really improving, if you understand the seasonality associated with them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Real Estate Fears
06-23-2009
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wealthdaily.com/
Worse, "U.S. commercial real estate could fall by more than 50 percent from the peak in 2007. The number of new loans that are becoming delinquent each month are defaulting at rates between 5 percent and 8 percent per year...
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public
06-23-2009
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Infowars.com/
The streets were immediately clogged, and the vault was large enough, 15 meters by 15 meters by my estimate, to necessitate at least a big truck to carry out its contents. The vault had to have been emptied before the attack.
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News Link • Housing
Existing Homes Sales Fall 3.6% YOY
06-23-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
Existing-home sales fell 3.6% from May 2008. Sales in May 2009 rose 2.4% from April to 4.77 million. Once again, the prior monthly number was revised downwards (4.68 million down to 4.66 million).
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Governor Schwarzenegger says “hasta la vista” to court reporters
06082009
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http://cocra.org/2009/06/governor-schwarzenegger-n
Like for instance, we don’t need court reporters. I mean, we can do this digitally. Why are we still holding on to court reporters? Just because the unions want to hold on and keep their jobs.
" Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Charles Gillespie
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
49 States show declining economic activity: What Green Shoots?
06-23-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Here is a map of the three month change in the Philly Fed state coincident indicators. Forty nine states are showing declining three month activity.
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News Link • World News
Canada’s Swine Flu Vaccination Plan
06-23-2009
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The Windsor Star
Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the
first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as
Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Interventionism and Gun Control in Iran
06-23-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
Tyrants know that a disarmed
citizenry has but two options: obey the tyrants by submitting to their
tyranny or die at the hands of loyal and obedient (and armed) military
and police forces.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Political Theory
Can Politics Be the Answer?
06-23-2009
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C4SS / Thomas Knapp
By offering sound (in other words, pro-freedom) solutions to the
“social questions” and then demonstrating through failure at the polls
that those solutions will never be implemented through the political
process and political institutions, a libertarian political party can
open the eyes of precisely the people who are in, and need to be led out of, or at least convinced to think beyond, that process.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Inside the Mind of a Prohibitionist
06-23-2009
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Drug WarRant
Today's subject: Steve Francis in the San Diego News Network. Steve is a former candidate for Mayor and a former Assemblyman.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Drug War
Family Angry After Police Target Wrong House
06-23-2009
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indychannel.com
Major Mark Robinett of the Marion County Sheriff's Department, who is
in charge of warrant sweeps, said he was told that officers had a
difficult time reading the addresses because of overcast skies.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Gun Rights
GAO Says those on terrorist watch list could buy firearms
06-23-2009
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Washington Post
People named on the government's terrorism watch list have successfully purchased firearms hundreds of times since 2004, government investigators reported yesterday.(they can't even destroy our Civil Rights right)
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Paulthecabdriver Farah
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News Link • Drug War
Drugs and Human Rights
06-23-2009
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arclein
It is unsurprising that folks who are immersed in economic thinking agree that the drug war cannot work. I admit that that was the road taken to my personal position and no other issues have actually been able to give me room for modification of that position. Plainly human actions have economic consequences and governmental actions have direct influence on those consequences. It follows as night follows day that successfully modifying human outcomes must first come from effective government action.
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Politicians Talking Gibberish About Health Care
6/23/09
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Liberty News Radio
Every minute of every day, Americans are subjected to politicians and media pundits talking gibberish. There really is no other word for it, whether the particular subject is economics, foreign policy, or even climatology. However, the gibberish that is getting the most attention right now concerns health care "reform." President Obama is leading the Democrats with the familiar socialist model that has failed in every industrialized nation in which it has been tried...
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Iran
Iran Police Quash Rally as Revolutionary Guards Warn Protesters
06-22-2009
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Bloomberg
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian police massing in force
broke up a demonstration over the disputed presidential election
just hours after the Revolutionary Guards said they would crush
further protest.
Police used tear gas and fired shots into the air to quell
yesterday’s rally in central Tehran, the Associated Press
reported. Witnesses said helicopters hovered overhead as about
200 protesters gathered in Haft-e-Tir Square before they were
dispersed, AP said.
Security forces were deployed in the capital to prevent
further demonstrations after hundreds of thousands of Iranians
took to the streets in more than a week of rallies. At least 17
people have been killed in the worst internal violence in the
oil-producing nation of 66 million since the shah was overthrown
in 1979.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Parolees face challenges paying child support
06-22-2009
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St. Joe News
Re-entry officials say ex-convicts like Mr.
McGaughy emerge from prison facing menial employment, lowered earning
power and a policy that may whisk them back to prison for debts built
while behind bars. That contrasts with a tough prosecutor in St. Joseph
who is unapologetic about recovering child support.
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