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Date Sent: 2009-10-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 16, 2009 AM edition |
Feds Knew About Merrill Lynch Bonuses -- PA Drafts Mandatory Vaccination Law
Embattled Pakistan faces its worst-case scenario -- The State Hates the Internet -- House backs Guantanamo prisoner transfer -- 6 year old boy feared floating away in homemade balloon found -- Runoff Expected In Afghan Election -- Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. -- Cost to get one gallon of gas to combat vehicles in Afghanistan: $400 -- The House That Goldman Sachs Built -- A $250 old folks bribe to help the ObamaCare medicine go down -- The JP Morgan Effect - by Bill Bonner -- China Desperately Seeking Commodities -- Obama signs major Pakistan bribe bill --
Tim Geithner's Treasury Dept Is A Veritable Viper's Nest Of Wall Street
Thieves -- 'Toughest Sheriff' Vows Face-off With Feds Over Illegals -- New Assault Weapons Ban Urged
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Feds Knew About Merrill Lynch Bonuses Says Court Documents in Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) Case
10-15-2009
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American Banking News
Court documents in the Bank of America case alleging the institution withheld information from the government about bonuses awarded to executives at Merrill Lynch before they took them over, state in fact that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke an
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News Link • Eugenics
Pennsylvania Drafts 2009 Mandatory Vaccination Law
10-15-2009
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Farm Wars
States are getting ready for the mandatory vaccination stage of the eugenics program, and Pennsylvania is right on schedule with Pennsylvania House Bill 492, the “Emergency Health Powers Act.”
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Constitution
A Note to the Huffington Post: Federalism Is Not ‘Progressive’
10-14-2009
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Josh Eboch
Contrary to the prevailing attitude in politics and the media today, the words of our founders do still have meaning for many Americans. They value both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, and, as its Tenth Amendment underscores, that docu
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Embattled Pakistan faces its worst-case scenario
10-15-2009
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Reuters
The worst-case scenario facing Pakistan -- prolonged insecurity with militants launching bloody attacks on the key pillars of the state -- is no longer just a risk for markets and Western policymakers to fret over. It is already here.
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News Link • Torture
House backs Guantanamo prisoner transfer
10-15-2009
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Reuters
The House voted to allow foreign terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay prison into the United States to face trial. The measure, included in a $42.8 billion bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, must be passed by the Senate before Presi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The State Hates the Internet
10-15-2009
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Lew Rockwell (HT Liberty Pulse)
Lew Rockwell on the Mark Carbonara Show
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Natural Food Fight: Whole Foods and Health Care
10-15-2009
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Reason
Reason.tv talked to protesters, Mackey, and employees about "the Whole Foods alternative to ObamaCare."
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
6 year old boy feared floating away in homemade balloon found
10-15-2009
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Washington Post (video)
A rambunctious 6-year-old boy had climbed into a homemade helium balloon, the anchors announced gravely. Now he was floating so prettily 7,000 feet above Colorado, toward the heavens, at the mercy of the winds.
For three hours on a workaday Thursd
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Indecision Cost Lives
10-15-2009
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You Tube
Every day that Obama fiddle farts around and delays action on his field commanders request for help (MORE TROOPS) cost lives for those already on the ground.
Obama needs to get off his NOBEL ass and do his JOB!
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News Link • Marriage
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.
10-15-2009
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AP
[dinosaurs still roam the Earth] A Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. In his experience most interracial marriages do not last long.
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News Link • Obama Administration
An Unconstitutional Nobel
10-15-2009
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Washington Post
Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title from any King, Prince or foreign State."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Runoff Expected In Afghan Election
10-15-2009
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Washington Post
An investigation of allegedly fraudulent ballots in Afghanistan's troubled election has reduced President Hamid Karzai's portion of the vote to about 47%, an outcome that will trigger a runoff between him and his closest competitor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Seizure of Mexican Utility Spurs Protests
10-15-2009
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Washington Post
Declaring the state-owned company so poorly managed as to be "unsustainable," President Calderón authorized the seizure of Central Light and Power. He also deployed about 1,000 federal police officers in riot gear to enforce his decree; workers from
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Ongoing Cover Up of the Truth Behind the Financial Crisis May Lead to Another Crash
10-15-2009
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Zero Hedge
The media has largely parroted what the White House and Wall Street were saying. As a Pew Research Center study on the coverage of the crisis found:Economist Thomas Palley says that Wall Street also has a vested interest in covering up how bad things
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Cost to get one gallon of gas to combat vehicles in Afganistan: $400
10-15-2009
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Current
The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan.
The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The House That Goldman Sachs Built
10-15-2009
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Lew Rockwell
The U.S. Treasury Department is the central headquarters of Wall Street, and Timmy Geithner is its demigod.
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News Link • Humor
ACORN Scandal Immortalized on ‘South Park’
10-15-2009
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Big Hollywood
The ACORN scandal was immortalized tonight on “South Park.” The plot of the season 13 episode “Butters’ Bottom Bitch” is that Butters, the adorably naïve fourth grader starts a “kissing company” that grows to the point where he is a pimping out 10+ p
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News Link • Obama Administration
Cash for Oldsters
A $250 bribe to help the ObamaCare medicine go down.
10-15-2009
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WSJ
No one ever went broke underestimating political cynicism, but these days even we can't keep up: On Wednesday, President Obama announced that he wants to send every American senior a $250 check.
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News Link • Political Parties
MASSIVE COVER UP UNDERWAY Hawaii Attorney General Invokes Attorney Client Privilege Concerning DoH “
10/15/2009
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godlikeproductions.com
Hawaii Attorney General Invokes Attorney Client Privilege Concerning DoH “Natural-Born Citizen” Press Release of July 27, 2009.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2009 by naturalborncitizen
[link to www.abanet.org]
On October 5, 2009 I sent
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Phennommennonn GLP
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Feature Article • Economy - Economics USA
The JP Morgan Effect
Bill Bonner
Yesterday, the Dow soared over they 10,000 mark. If it keeps going at this rate " up 144 points yesterday " it will soon equal the post-’29 bounce. All we need is two more days and we’re there.
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News Link • Continental Congress 2009
Earmarks Sap Energy Chief's Priorities
10-15-2009
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WSJ
Energy Secretary Steven Chu set out this year to address America's energy future with a network of new research labs. But lawmakers drafted their own blueprint: Instead of fully funding Dr. Chu's request, an energy-spending bill sets aside millions o
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News Link • Anthropology
Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
10-15-2009
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Reuters
Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.
Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in
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News Link • Healthcare
D.C. Attorney Jim Turner discusses swine flu lawsuit
10-15-2009
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BeatTheChip.org
Showtime resumes from 9-10 AM, with a one hour time slot.
This week on Waking Up Orwell we will be speaking to Jim Turner, a Washington attorney representing Citizens for Health, an organization suing the FDA for approving the H1N1 swine flu vacci
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama signs major Pakistan aid bill
10-15-2009
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Breitbart
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law a $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan that the U.S.-ally's military criticized as American meddling in its internal affairs.
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News Link • China
China Desperately Seeking Commodities: China Investing in Russian Oil Producer
10-15-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
China’s sovereign-wealth fund is investing $300 million as part of a complex transaction in which a Hong Kong-listed company is seeking to take over Russian oil producer Nobel Holdings Investments Ltd., according to statements from the Chinese fund a
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News Link • Propaganda
Quickly, Just For The Record On JP Morgan's "Huge" Earnings:
10-15-2009
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The Golden Truth
They are COMPLETE bullshit.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Tim Geithner's Treasury Dept Is A Veritable Viper's Nest Of Wall Street Thieves
10-15-2009
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The Golden Truth
Bloomberg News has posted a report which outlines just how corrupted by Wall Street that Obama's Treasury Department has become, populated with people on the taxpayer payroll serving as Geithner's closest "counselors," none of whom were subjected to
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News Link • Obama Administration
Anita Dunn's Favorite Philosopher? Chairman Dung.
10-15-2009
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http://swamp-ass.forumotion.net/swamp-ass-news-f1/
A video clip of MARXIST Anita Dunn, White House communications director, has emerged where she says that Chairman Mao, who killed 50-70 Million Chinese and said that "China can do without 300 million people", is her "favorite political philosopher."
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Kaptain Steve
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News Link • Currencies
American Barrick Issues $1.25 Billion In Debt To Further Reduce Gold Hedg
10-15-2009
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The Golden Truth
With the ink barely dry on its $4 billion stock deal, American Barrick (ABX) announced a surprise debt deal to raise another $1.25 billion in order to further reduce its gold hedge book.
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News Link • Drug War
Will Mexican violence spill over border?
10-15-2009
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ABC
So will it spill further into Texas? Absolutely, says the drug smuggler. "It will in the future. It will escalate, escalate and continue to escalate," he said. What does he think about us reporting from Juarez? "You might as well write your last will
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News Link • TERRORISM
Secretary Napolitano and Governor Ritter Unveil Video Encouraging Awareness of Signs of Terrorism
10-15-2009
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DHS.gov
[Video link at bottom] Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano joined Colorado Governor Bill Ritter yesterday to unveil “Recognizing 8 Signs of Terrorism”"a video produced with DHS grant funding designed to educate Colorado c
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
'Toughest Sheriff' Vows Face-off With Feds Over Illegals
10-15-2009
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Washington Times via Rense.com
The sheriff has announced he will defy the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by doing a street sweep for illegal immigrants... FRIDAY
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
New Assault Weapons Ban Urged
10-15-2009
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Officer.com
Meant to prevent guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels - The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released
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