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Date Sent: 2009-07-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 24, 2009 PM edition |
Treasury Gives 3 Major Banks Sweetheart Deals -- Republic Broadcasting Network Owner Arrested
Guaranty Financial: Largest Bank Failure of the Year Draws Near --
Largest Homebuilders are Mothballing Communities Across the U.S. --
U.S. Home Vacancies Hit $18.7 Million on Bank Seizures -- Obama appoints Monsanto scientist to oversee America's food safety -- 4 AZ boys accused of raping 8-year-old girl, and then it gets worse -- Citigroup names former banking regulator to board -- 12,000 U.S. Children To Be Swine Flu Vaccine Guinea Pigs -- DHS Commisar Janet Napolitano to address CFR Wednesday -- Banning 'Naked' Default Swaps May Raise Corporate Funding Costs -- Arizona HCR2014: National Health Care Nullification -- 4409'S PirateWATCH -- City Council blows budget then just steals more -- Douglas Co., OR Resolution relating to Recordation of Federal Notices of Tax Lien! -- Video: WeAreChange NYC & LA make John D. Rockefeler IV run for the hills -- The criminal case against ACORN -- Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club tomorrow morning
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News Link • Corruption
Treasury Gives Three Major Banks Sweetheart Deals
07-24-2009
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Huffington Post
Less than two weeks after a congressional watchdog called attention to backroom deals in which the Treasury Department repurchased stock warrants from bailed-out banks at well below market value, three more such transactions have now been reported. The big loser: The US taxpayer.
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Police State
Republic Broadcasting Network Owner Arrested
07-24-2009
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Republic Broadcasting Network
JOHN STADTMILLER ARRESTED
John Stadtmiller was arrested for
Expired/Suspended drivers license which he had taken care of over a
month ago. Just 30 minutes after his show today, July 23, 2009, He
stopped to see what police were doing to another driver as they were
taking property out of the car, this is when they noticed John, about
150 feet away, and decided to question him.John is being held by
Williamson County Jail which can be contacted at this number:
512 943 5202
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Spain forecast to suffer unemployment rate of 22 percent in 2010
07-24-2009
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NakedCapitalism.com
Citigroup has just released a forecast which is very troubling in regards to employment and growth in the Spanish economy. With unemployment already having hit 17.9%, Citigroup expects layoffs to increase this to 22% in 2010.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Gov't considers 7 states for mercury dump site
07-24-2009
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AP
[the lucky few] The federal government is trying to find a location to store the
nation's excess mercury deposits, with seven states being considered.
But the government is quickly finding out that very few people want the
stuff.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Stimulus Money to Fund Diamondbacks New Spring Training Site?
07-24-2009
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AZCentral.com
The community will try to tap into $2 billion in federal stimulus funds set aside for Indian communities to help fund the baseball complex, Salt River community President Diane Enos said...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
High Frequency Trading Is A Scam
07-24-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net & NYtimes.com
If you're wondering how Goldman Sachs and other "big banks and hedge funds" made all their money this last quarter, now you know.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Denninger: Four Bad Results
07-24-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
The stock market is pricing in not just a "recovery" but 5-7% GDP growth over the next year! That is simply insane: there is zero support for such a belief anywhere in the macro economic view...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Universal Currency
07-24-2009
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arclein
Russia and China have put forth "proposals" which have been highlighted as possible alternatives to the dollar. China has proposed the formation of a new global currency based on a reform of SDR system:
"It is a feasible plan to reform the present SDR and make it into a real settlement currency, a universally accepted 'currency basket' that would replace the dollar at the heart of the monetary system," (Li Ruogu, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of China, Reuters, 6 July 2009)
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center
07-24-2009
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InfoWars.com
We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
FEMA to Conduct Massive Martial Law Exercise Next Week
07-24-2009
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InfoWars.com
The FEMA exercise will include foreign troops. “This year the United States welcomes the participation of Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom in NLE 09.” The FEMA factsheet does not explain why the participation of foreign troops is necessary.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government
Back from the Moon, Apollo 11 Astronauts Had to Go Through Customs
07-24-2009
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Space
Before the
ticker tape parades and the inevitable world tour, the triumphant Apollo 11
astronauts were greeted with a more mundane aspect of life on Earth when they
splashed down 40 years ago today - going through customs.
Just what
did Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins have
to declare? Moon rocks, moon dust and other lunar samples, according to the
customs form filed at the Honolulu Airport in Hawaii on July 24, 1969 - the day
the Apollo 11 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to end their historic moon
landing mission.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Guaranty Financial: Largest Bank Failure of the Year Draws Near
07-24-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
It is just a matter of when. Guaranty Financial will be the largest bank failure this year with approximately $14 billion in assets.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Largest Homebuilders are Mothballing Communities Across the U.S
07-24-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“Until we see job losses abate and foreclosures begin to decline, rather than increase as we expect, there is unlikely to be a catalyst for the builders,” Torma said. “It’s going to continue to be a challenging environment.”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
U.S. Home Vacancies Hit 18.7 Million on Bank Seizures
07-24-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“There were 18.7 million vacant homes in the U.S. during the second quarter as the steepest recession in 50 years sapped demand for real estate and banks seized properties from delinquent borrowers.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Blown deadline, blown chance?
07-24-2009
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Politico
With his August deadline now dead,
President Barack Obama must hope the prospects for health reform this
year haven’t expired as well " but the backsliding and bitter words on Capitol Hill this week show just how much his sweeping plan is at risk.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision
Thursday not to seek a Senate vote on health reform before the recess
means the House most likely won’t act either " putting the votes off
until September.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Angel's face uncovered at Istanbul's Haghia Sophia
07-24-2009
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AP
Restoration workers have uncovered a well-preserved, long-hidden
mosaic face of an angel at the former Byzantine cathedral of Haghia
Sophia in Istanbul, an official said.
The
seraphim figure " one of two located on the side of a dome " had been
covered up along with the building's other Christian mosaics shortly
after Constantinople " the former name for Istanbul " fell to the
Ottomans in 1453 and the cathedral was turned into a mosque.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama appoints Monsanto scientist to oversee America's food safety
07-24-2009
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HuffingtonPost.com
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
4 Ariz. boys accused of raping 8-year-old girl- WTF x 2!!
07-24-2009
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AP
Officers responding to hysterical screams found an
8-year-old girl partially clothed and 4 boys, barely in their teens,
running from an empty shed...."The father told the case worker and an officer in her presence that he
didn't want her back. He said 'Take her, I don't want her,' " Hill said.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Citigroup names former banking regulator to board
07-24-2009
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AP
[nice work if you can get it] Citi hopes naming of former banking regulator Diana Taylor, Timothy Collins and Robert Joss " which bring the board's total to 17 " will be enough to satisfy critics. CEO Vikram Pandit, who has faced heavy scrutiny, is the only executive remaining on the expanded board.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
Janet Napolitano to address CFR Wednesday, July 29th
07-24-2009
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CFR.org via Daily Paul
The topic will be "Common Threat, Collective Response: Protecting Against Terrorist Attacks in a Networked World." Watch as Ms. Napolitano kowtows to her masters live on the internet.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banning 'Naked' Default Swaps May Raise Corporate Funding Costs
07-24-2009
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Bloomberg
Naked swaps, where the investor doesn't own the debt on which the contracts are based, have proliferated in the market and may be prohibited under legislation being drafted by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. (Sounds fishy to me)
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Arizona HCR2014: National Health Care Nullification
6/26/09
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Tenth Amendment Cntr
Right on the heels of a successful state-by-state nullification of the 2005 Real ID act, the State of Arizona is out in the forefront of a growing resistance to proposed federal health care legislation.
This past Monday, the Arizona State Senate voted 18-11 to concur with the House and approve the Health Care Freedom Act (HCR2014). This will put a proposal on the 2010 ballot which would constitutionally override any law, rule or regulation that requires individuals or employers to participate in any particular health care system.
HCR2014, if approved by voters next year, also would prohibit any fine or penalty on anyone or any company for deciding to purchase health care directly. Doctors and health care providers would remain free to accept those funds and provide those services.
Finally, it would overrule anything that prohibits the sale of private health insurance in Arizona.
Five other states " Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming " are considering similar
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Free Speech
Big Brother Switzerland: real-time internet interception to start on August 1, 2009 (Leaked Document
07-24-2009
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American Resistance Movement
These confidential documents detail
information on an official program for centralized, real-time,
interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Climate Change
ENSO Linked to Climate Change
07-24-2009
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arclein
Bob Carter, one of four scientists who has recently questioned the justification for the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme, says that this paper has significant consequences for public climate policy.
"The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature, as described in the paper, leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions. The available data indicate that future global temperatures will continue to change primarily in response to ENSO cycling, volcanic activity and solar changes.”
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Government
Douglas County, Oregon Resolution relating to Recordation of Federal Notices of Tax Lien!
07-24-2009
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www.freedomradio.us
WHEREAS, the current practice of filing Notice of Federal Tax Liens,
herein after known as NOFTL, violates the Constitutionally protected
Due Process rights of the Citizens of the County of Douglas, and; WHEREAS,
the current practice of filing NOFTL violates the Citizens right to be
secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, from unreasonable
search and seizure arising under Article 1 section 8, Oregon
Constitution and Article IV, U.S. Constitution, and; WHEREAS,
the current practice of filing these NOFTL has caused the Citizens of
the County of Douglas irrevocable and irreparable damage to their
persons and property, and; HEREAS, the Citizens of the County
of Douglas created and formed the Board of Commissioners of the County
of Douglas; who swore an oath to protect and uphold the Constitution of
the United States and the Constitution of the State of Oregon; for the
express purpose of having said Board defend and protect the Citizens of
the County of Douglas fr
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • New World Order
Video: WeAreChange NYC & LA make John D. Rockefeler IV run for the hills
7/22/09
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Youtube
Video speaks for itself....
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Breaking: The criminal case against ACORN
7/24/09
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Worldnet Daily
Congressional report demands probe, block of $8.5 billion in stimulus funds
In a move to block designation of $8.5 billion in economic stimulus funds, Republicans on a House committee released a report calling for a criminal investigation of ACORN, the community activist group tied to numerous charges of voter fraud nationwide.
The 88-page report asks whether ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is intentionally structured as a criminal enterprise
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops
7/24/09
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Recordpub
BOSTON (AP) -- Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Government Gone Mad
07-23-2009
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Joel S. Hirschhorn
Perhaps most Americans deserve the federal government they have. A government that, contrary to the lofty rhetoric of Barack Obama, is pure politics as usual. A government that is as corrupted by moneyed interests as ever. A government that is as dysfunctional and inefficient as ever.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Healthcare
The HC Monstrosity-All 1,018 Pages
07-22-09
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Common Sense From a Common Man
Page by page summary of the problems with the Health Care Reform Bill, from someone who has actually read it.
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Reported by:
Jennifer Burk
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Saturday Morning Arizona Breakfast Club / Saturday July 25th 2009
Ernest Hancock
Santa Fe on the Fourth of July: The beginnings of the KokeshRevolution / FreedomFest: Arizona Activism center stage / The 2009 FreedomSummit just around the corner / FreedomsPhoenix Studios now syndicated nationally on Republic Broadcasting and across the Internet via FreedomsPhoenix Podcasting and Archives.
We've been very busy this past month... time for you to get up to speed on what's been done, what's coming and how you can help.
Also: Chris Simcox wants a few minutes of your time and to tell you about his run for the US Senate against John McCain.
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