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Date Sent: 2009-11-23
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, November 23, 2009 AM edition |
Bets rise on rich country bond defaults -- Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research c
Fed under fire as public anger mounts -- Illegal housing bidding on rise shops -- 9/11 defendants want platform for views -- Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana -- What Has Government Done to the Dollar? -- Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs -- SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops -- Taser manufacturer recommends use on genitals -- Brotherhood of Plunder: Snapshots of America's Criminal Oligarchy - by Will Grigg -- Can the Postal Service be Saved? -- How the Senate Bought the First Healthcare Vote -- Did U.S make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
AZ: Charles Goyette Book Signing Tuesday Evening Changing Hands Bookstore
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News Link • Economy - International
Bets rise on rich country bond defaults
11-22-2009
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Financial Times
The mounting level of debt in the industrialised world is prompting a growing number of investors to use the derivatives market to bet on the chance of rich governments defaulting on bonds. The volume of activity in sovereign credit default swaps
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Climate Change
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
11-22-2009
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Wendy McElroy
The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia as evidence that scientific data have been rigged to make it appear as if humans are causing global warming.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed under fire as public anger mounts
11-22-2009
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AP
Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
9/11 defendants want platform for views
11-22-2009
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NY Times
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Terrorism Trial May Point Way for 9/11 Cases
11-22-2009
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NY Times
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of being a Qaeda terrorist, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held in secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and then moved to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay. During about five years of detention, he says, he was confine
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Illegal housing bidding on rise
11-22-2009
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Arizona Republic
Prices on some foreclosure homes are being dropped below the opening bid just hours or even minutes before the auction. Buyers aware of the "drop bids" scoop up the houses before other bidders know about the price drops.
Drop bids violate the stat
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops
11-22-2009
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Reuters
Licensed Californian collectives that adhere to the rules say legitimate operations like theirs are being sucked into a sweep against what local prosecutors deem rogue pot shops.
"We are low-hanging fruit for the cops," said the manager of a West
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean
11-22-2009
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AP
The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive “dumbos” that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Signed a Contract with the Chicago Socialist Party
10/08/08
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tpo.net
Everything on the Post Below is Hyperlinked to a site within the Chicago Democratic party archives, there is no conjecture, no guessing, The fact is that as recently as 1996 Senator Obama was an active member of the Chicago Democratic Socialist Party
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Currencies
What Has Government Done to the Dollar?
11-22-2009
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DollarDaze (h/t Strike the Root)
The U.S. dollar has changed from being a paper certificate for a tangible asset to a fiat currency - a paper note declared legal tender. By looking at the history of American paper money one can clearly see the distinction.
The following image sho
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs
11-22-2009
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NY Times
The Department of Homeland Security spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but had to stop because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops
11-22-2009
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BoingBoing (h/t Strike The Root)
DJs at local underground parties have been losing their laptops to police raids - even when they're not DJing. They're being told that they'll lose their laptops - and often their livelihood - for an indefinite period of time, with no information on
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
In the trenches on climate change, hostility for foes
11-22-2009
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Washington Post
Newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Taser manufacturer recommends use on genitals
11-22-2009
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Wendy McElroy
Taser International, in the user’s manual that comes with every Taser, states the following, “application of the Taser to the genitals is PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE.” Taser openly encourages the use of the weapon on the groin. For the stun gun mode, or “
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Brotherhood of Plunder: Snapshots of America's Criminal Oligarchy - by Will Grigg
11-22-2009
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Pro Liberate
Frustrated when his demand didn't reduce Hills to a puddle of compliant jello, Cohen -- a police sergeant placed Hills under arrest, handcuffed him, and detained him until the businessman signed a promissory note to repay Marinilli.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Britain's Obercomputenführer
11-22-2009
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Wendy McElroy
If the US is proposing draconian rules to implement the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it's nothing compared to the British proposal....an unelected official with the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight in the name of protectin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
We Have The Advantage
11-22-2009
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DishonestMoney.com
Taking a serious look at government wrongdoing is no easy task. Not because the damning evidence is hard to find, but because the truth (once found) is very hard to swallow. How does one reconcile the fact that we are being led into slavery (and to s
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Reported by:
Joe Plummer
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News Link • Government
Can the Postal Service be Saved?
11-22-2009
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CBS News
The Postal Service is legally prohibited from taking tax dollars. But in order to stay afloat, the agency has been borrowing from the US Treasury: At last count, it owes the government $10.2 billion. It lost $3.8 billion in the recent year
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
How the Senate Bought the First Healthcare Vote
11-22-2009
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Washington Post
And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "It's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
Enough is Enough!
11-22-2009
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Walt Garlington
I am no revolutionary, but if Congress is intent on passing an unconstitutional healthcare bill despite repeated requests not to, I say we should be equally intent on not obeying it.
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Reported by:
Michael Boldin
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Did U.S make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
11-22-2009
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Reuters
As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic of swine flu, some are looking regretfully at one easy way to instantly double or triple the number of doses available -- by using an immune booster cal
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Federal Reserve
Mortgage Revocation Seminar
Thomas Costanzo
2-DAY MORTGAGE WORKSHOP: HOW TO STOP FORECLOSURES!
NOVEMBER 27-28, 2009, 10 AM TO 5:00 PM
Mickey Palotea of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is once again coming to Phoenix on November 28 and 29, 2009 for a 2-Day Workshop: How to Stop Foreclosures!
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