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Date Sent: 2009-09-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 16, 2009 AM edition |
Obama Seeks Patriot Act Extensions -- Request for more troops ‘very soon’
DNI's Strategic Plan Outlines New Missions -- Privatizing Fannie, Freddie -- City council delays giving police new powers for G-20 -- Bio-Tyranny come to Arizona. Complete with Bio-Detention Camps. -- One drug bust in US every 18 seconds -- FBI Warns Police Depts After NYC Anti-Terror Raid
-- ‘Gypsy’ cop accused of soliciting minor busted by ‘KopBusters’ --
Rep. Stark: ‘I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg’ -- Obama challenges Wall Street to support his regulations -- U.S. rebuffing big banks' push to exit bailout -- U.S. retail sales jump 2.7 percent in August
AZ: "Fatally Flawed," a movie on election fraud in Tucson today at 6:30PM
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News Link • Police State
Obama Seeks Patriot Act Extensions
09-15-2009
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Jason Ditz, September 15, 2009
Despite promises during the campaign that he would review certain of the most intrusive portions of the Patriot Act, President Barack Obama’s Justice Department today is calling for Congress to extend all three expiring provisions.
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Ben Nichols
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Request for more troops ‘very soon’
09-15-2009
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Politico
The nation’s top military leader told the Senate Armed Services Committee that top Pentagon officials will likely support a request that will come “very soon” for [45,000] additional troops for the war in Afghanistan.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
DNI's Strategic Plan Outlines New Missions
09-16-2009
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Washington Post
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told reporters that although combating extremism, issuing warnings, countering weapons proliferation and supporting military operations overseas remain major priorities, the 16 agencies that make up t
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Hybrid man-eating pythons? Florida is on alert.
09-16-2009
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Christian Science Monitor
In an case of real life imitating Hollywood, the US scientific community is increasingly concerned that two nonnative python breeds currently slithering free in south Florida could morph into a giant man-eating swamp coil.
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News Link • History
Rare Coins: Family Treasure or Ill-Gotten Goods?
09-16-2009
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NY Times
There were nine more of them in the safe-deposit box. But after the Langbord family took the coins to the United States Mint to be authenticated in 2004, they got a rude surprise. The Mint said the coins were genuine and kept them.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Privatizing Fannie, Freddie Could ‘Mitigate’ Risks Caused by Government Intervention, Says GAO
09-15-2009
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Cns
A Government Accountability Office report says that privatizing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could mitigate the systemic economic risk caused by the federal government’s guarantees to the now-defunct mortgage
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News Link • New World Order
Friends in Low Places
09-15-2009
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Economist
Hugo Chávez dreams of forging a new world order
Shutterstock/AFPTHE mountains and jungles of South America are not ideal terrain for tank warfare. So it is hard to envisage what role Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has in mind for the dozens
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News Link • Obama Administration
Geithner's Deadbeats
09-15-2009
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Forbes
As the first anniversary of the government's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program approaches, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has a lot to be happy about.
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News Link • Healthcare
The Case for Killing Granny
Rethinking end-of-life care.
09-15-2009
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Newsweek
But the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate. Everyone sees it but no one wants to talk about it. Until Americans learn to contemplate death as more than a scientific chal
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Collecting Web Users' Data
9/16/09
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Fox News
The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users. ....
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • New World Order
City council delays giving police new powers for G-20
09-15-2009
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh City Council balked at giving final approval today to legislation that could give police new powers in advance of anticipated G-20 Summit protests, putting the matter off until tomorrow.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Local Citizens Petition Congress to Audit the Federal Reserve
09-15-2009
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WNWS
. .Today thousands of signatures were delivered to the offices of Tennessee Congressman John Tanner and United States Senators for Tennessee Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander by non-partisan constituents in a grass roots effort to encourage an audit of
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News Link • Political Theory
College Station, Texas, is Now a Dictatorship
09-15-2009
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http://PhotoRadarScam.com
The government that is supposed to serve the people, is now telling the people how they should vote, and using the people's money to do so! What country are we living in again?
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Ryan Denke
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News Link • Obama Administration
Watch out Twitter, Facebook, You Tube - Users!
09-15-2009
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blueloriblogspot.com
The White House is harvesting your information and defending their actions!
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Secret Test That Ensures Lenders Win on Loan Mods
09-15-2009
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Pro Publica
The outcome of the Net Present Value test run on the Illinois homeowner
“NPV Test: Failed.”
That was the red-lettered verdict on the computer screen of a CitiMortgage negotiator in June. The result: An 83-year-old widow in Illinois was denied a l
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul
09-15-2009
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IBD
Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found
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News Link • General Opinion
Why Did Yale Censor the Danish Cartoons?
09-15-2009
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American Thinker
Jytte Klausen, a Danish professor of political science at Brandeis University, submitted her manuscript, "The Cartoons that Shook the World" to Yale University Press. The publications committee there unanimously and enthusiastically recommended it fo
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News Link • Constitution
Health-Care Reform and the Constitution
Why hasn't the Commerce Clause been read to allow inte
09-15-2009
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Judge Napolitano/WSJ
Last week, I asked South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, where in the Constitution it authorizes the federal government to regulate the delivery of health care. He replied: "There's noth
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News Link • Government
Flashback: Pete Stark, D-Calif., Calls Bush Liar on House Floor
09-15-2009
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Fox
Flashback: Pete Stark, D-Calif., Calls Bush Liar on House Floor
The House Democrats will vote today to discipline Rep. Joe Wilson for calling President Obama a liar on the House floor during his speech to the nation that was riddled with mislead
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News Link • Military
Another Soldier Speaks Out; Swine flu, chipping
09/15/2009
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Youtube
It doesn't look good folks, for our military to be risking themselves to warn us we should take heed. Phoenix 1.5 document shown at end.
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • WAR: About that War
More U.S. troops needed for Afghan war: Mullen
09-15-2009
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Reuters
Even more U.S. troops will likely be needed in Afghanistan beyond the 68,000 who will have deployed there by the end of this year, the top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did n
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News Link • Government
GOP: No more government bailouts
09-15-2009
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Marketwatch
Republican lawmakers on Tuesday gathered on Capitol Hill to promote their financial regulatory reform legislation
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News Link • Currencies
Gold at record high after Bernanke says recession is over
09-15-2009
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Marketwatch
Gold futures climbed back above the $1,000-an-ounce mark to finish at a new record on Tuesday, after upbeat U.S. economic reports and as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession is likely over.
However, he and other Fed officials
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
ABC Rushes To Delete Obama Kanye West "Jackass" Tweets
09-15-2009
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The Business Insider
Poor ABC just blew its access to the White House. Once you let those tweets out of the bottle, you just can't stuff them back in.
Meanwhile, can the media please stop taking itself so seriously? Obama called Kanye a "jackass." Of course that's
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News Link • Surveillance
Obama Supports Extending Patriot Act Business Records Snooping
09-15-2009
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The Business Insider
The hope for change among civil rights advocates has been thwarted.
The Obama administration supports extending a controversial provision of the Patriot Act that allows investigators to demand that businesses turn over sensitive financial records,
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Feature Article • Voting: Vote Fraud
FATALLY FLAWED / Local Documentary Premiere.
Drew
FATALLY FLAWED is a true detective story about a two billion dollar bond transportation measure passed under suspicious circumstances in Pima County, Arizona. Meet and support director (our own) J.T. WALDON and special guests BILL RISNER and JOHN BRA
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Praises Incoming AFL-CIO President Trumka at Pittsburgh Convention Despite Baggage
09-15-2009
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National Legal and Policy Center
President Obama, far from expressing concern about Trumka's background, is an avowed ally. At his speech today in Pittsburgh, he had this to say about the next AFL-CIO president: "I know it's bad luck to congratulate someone before they are officiall
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News Link • Corruption
JPMorgan Chase Asked to Stop Funding ACORN
09-15-2009
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National Legal and Policy Center
NLPC has asked JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to end financial support for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and its affiliates. According to the 2007 tax return for the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the most recent availabl
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News Link • Federal Reserve
It Was the S.O.B. Paulson
09-15-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
who screwed America...Bush was clueless and intimidated by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, according to a GW speechwriter.
Here they come, the Bush year tell alls. A GW speechwriter, Matt Latimer, is the first one out of the gate spilling the dir
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hot Button
09-15-2009
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Washington Times
Energy office
Officials at the Treasury Department think cap-and-trade legislation would cost taxpayers hundreds of billion in taxes, according to internal documents circulated within the agency and provided to The Washington Times.
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News Link • Corruption
Latest Breaking Acorn "I shot him-I killed him"
09-15-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
Wow wait until you see the latest Acorn Video Expose below. This organization should be charged under the Rico Act and if the resident had any class he would have the justice department look into that but obviously being an old time Acorn Agitator
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Under Attack--The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of (Israeli) Occupation
09-15-2009
Why? Because they signed "The Toronto Declaration", a letter questioning the wisdom of unconditionally celebrating Tel Aviv and Israel at the Toronto International Film Festival just months after the brutal attack on Gaza. The letter they signed oppo
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News Link • Depression
Bernanke: "Recession Is Over" (Depression Has Just Begun)
09-15-2009
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Market Watch
Then explain this for credit card charge-offs for the last month:
Discover Financial Services Reports Aug Master Trust; Net Charge offs 9.16% v 8.43% m/m
JPMorgan Chase and Co Reports Aug Master Trust; Net charge offs 10.07% v 7.92% m/m
Bank
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News Link • Drug War
FBI figures: One drug bust in US every 18 seconds
09-15-2009
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Rawstory
America is a nation at war, overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at home.
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report for 2008 every 18 seconds someone is arrested and charged with violating drug laws.
Another striking fi
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News Link • TERRORISM
FBI Warns Police Depts After NYC Anti-Terror Raid
09-15-2009
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AP
Counterterrorism officials are warning police departments around the country to be on the lookout for evidence of homemade bombs following raids on several New York City apartments in a hunt for explosives and possible links to al-Qaida operatives.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Male bass in many US rivers feminized
09-15-2009
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AP
Government scientists figure that one out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Electricity Harvested From Trees
09-15-2009
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LiveScience
Researchers have figured out a way to plug into the power generated by trees.
Scientists have known for some time that plants can conduct electricity. In fact, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that plants can pack up to
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
‘Gypsy’ cop accused of soliciting minor was brought down by ‘KopBusters’
09-15-2009
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Rawstory
A former police officer who worked for over a dozen departments in Texas is behind bars, held on numerous felony charges including engaging in organized criminal activity, promotion of prostitution, solicitation of a minor and two counts of attemptin
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News Link • Military
Georgia judge will rule on 'birther' lawsuit on Army deployment
09-15-2009
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McClatchy News
During a hearing in U.S. District Court Monday, an attorney for an Army officer fighting deployment to Iraq questioned Barack Obama’s legal right to serve as president, asserting he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii.
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Rep. Stark: ‘I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg’
09-15-2009
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Rawstory
Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) told a constituent at a recent town hall meeting that he wouldn’t “waste the urine” to pee on the man’s leg. [VIDEO]
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama challenges Wall Street to support his regulations
09-15-2009
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McClatchy News
A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama said although the nation was "beginning to return to normalcy," Congress still must pass new regulations on the fi
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News Link • Agriculture
Kids send Marcus the lamb to slaughter
09-15-2009
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Reuters
A group of schoolchildren who reared a lamb from birth and named it Marcus has overridden objections by parents and rights activists and voted to send the animal to slaughter.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. retail sales jump 2.7 percent in August
09-15-2009
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Reuters
Sales at U.S. retailers rose at their fastest pace in three-and-half years in August as government-sponsored auto incentives buoyed demand for motor vehicles, according to data that also showed strong sales outside the auto sector.
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News Link • Obama Administration
U.S. rebuffing big banks' push to exit bailout
09-15-2009
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Reuters
Some of the largest U.S. banks will remain caught in the government's financial bailout program for months, as officials do not expect to grant the next wave of exit approvals until near the end of the year.
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