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Date Sent: 2010-02-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 8, 2010 |
Recovery, debt woes to hound stocks -- Hell Could Break Loose in Europe This Week
Geithner Says US Credit Rating Safe Despite Debt -- Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming 'narco-state' -- Federal law barring lies about medals is tested -- Iran says arrests people hired by CIA -- Chinese police shut down hacker training business -- School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan -- €10 Billion flees Greece in midst of run on country -- Need a Job? The Government is Hiring–and How! -- U.S. Court of Appeals to Hear Arguments on AIG & $700B Bailout Constitutional Challenge -- Bosom Bombers Conspiracy: Women have explosive breast implants
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recovery, debt woes to hound stocks
02-07-2010
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Reuters
U.S. stocks face more turbulence that could send indexes spiraling through key levels this week as doubts about the global recovery's pace persist and fears linger over Europe's sovereign debt woes.
Investors worry that the debt problems will hind
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Hell Could Break Loose in Europe This Week: Feel Safe from Contagion?
2-7-10
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Any flight into Treasury securities should, of course, be looked at as temporary in nature and an opportunity to add to these short positions.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Geithner Says US Credit Rating Safe Despite Debt
02-07-2010
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AP
Treasury Secretary Geithner says the government "will never" lose its sterling credit rating despite big budget deficits and a newly increased debt limit that now tops $14 trillion. Geithner says international investors will continue to buy Treasury
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming 'narco-state'
02-07-2010
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Arizona Republic
Before dawn, gunmen kidnapped the elderly fathers of the town administrator and the secretary of the City Council. Within hours, both officials resigned along with the mayor, the entire City Council, 2 department heads, the police chief and all 60 po
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Federal law barring lies about medals is tested
02-07-2010
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AP
At issue is a 3-year-old federal law called the Stolen Valor Act that makes it a crime punishable by a year in jail to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military. It is a crime even if the liar makes no effort to profit from his st
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Underwater Exploration and Living
Seoul launches 'floating island'
02-07-2010
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AFP
A giant steel float that will be part of a "floating island" in Seoul boasting off-shore entertainment facilities began a snails-paced trip towards the city's Han River Saturday.
The football-field-sized structure, resembling the hull of a cargo s
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
This Tree's a Lady!
02-07-2010
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LiveScience
Scientists have discovered the female sex hormone progesterone in a walnut tree, shaking up what's known about the different between plants and animals.
Until now, scientists thought that only animals could make progesterone. A steroid hormone sec
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran says arrests people hired by CIA
02-07-2010
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Reuters
Iran said on Sunday it had arrested seven people accused of stoking unrest after last year's disputed election, including some who it said were employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boeing: 747-8 Freighter to Make First Flight
02-07-2010
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AP
Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter should make its first flight Monday after performing well on taxi tests and reaching a top speed of about 103.5 mph. At 250 feet long, the plane is the largest Boeing has ever built and about 18 feet longer than the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Ancient dialect extinct after last speaker dies
02-07-2010
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Reuters
One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island. Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo", was the oldest member o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Footprints Show Dinosaurs on the Run in China
02-07-2010
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AOLNews
Maybe they were looking for a better life. Or maybe they were scrambling to get away from a mega-predator.
But one thing's for certain: the discovery of more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints all facing the same way proves they were determined to get
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Al-Qaeda is a wounded but dangerous enemy
02-07-2010
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Washington Post
In the past six weeks, Americans have witnessed two jarringly different -- but completely accurate -- views of al-Qaeda's terrorist network. One image was that of terrorist leaders being hunted down and killed by satellite-guided, pilotless aircraft.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Chinese police shut down hacker training business
02-07-2010
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AP
Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software. The crackdown comes amid growing concern that China is a center fo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Saints Snare Win From Manning
02-07-2010
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NY Times
On Sunday night, with a quarterback who had hitched his career to resurrecting the Saints and New Orleans together playing nearly flawlessly, the Saints gave New Orleans a reason to do what it does better than any other American city: celebrate.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Yaba daba doo: US government takes a snow day
2-7-10
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Washingtonpost.com/
Washington DC will be closed for business. Federal government, most schools closed Monday; another storm on the horizon
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan
02-07-2010
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UK Times On-Line
THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Economy - International
But a Scratch: €10 Billion flees Greece in midst of run on country
2-7-10
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ZeroHedge.com
The system is never, by definition, prepared for massive fund flows in the outward bound direction, this is the greatest nightmare of any regulator or any central bank. If indeed the money rush out of Greece has commenced, then it is too late to save
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Need a Job? The Government is Hiringâ€"and How!
02-07-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Worried about the future and how you’re going to make it? Latch onto a government job. The U.S. economy might be still shedding jobs, but government at all levels are hiring more people to spend yourâ€"and your children’sâ€"money. Welcome to the Locust Y
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Constitution
U.S. Court of Appeals to Hear Arguments on AIG & $700B Bailout Constitutional Challenge
02-07-2010
In March, the 2nd Circuit U.S. COA will hear oral arguments directly challenging the constitutionality of the AIG and $700B TARP bailouts gifting billions of public money and credit for private profit. The legal pleadings are linked in the article.
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Bob Schulz
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Take Back the LP
02-07-2010
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http://takebackthelp.info
Greetings, libertarian! We need your your help with a special project -- restoring the party of principle. America needs a Libertarian Party worthy of pride and respect -- a party it can look to for the right answers to the big questions.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Protesting PhotoRadar in AZ with the Sheriff on your side
02-07-2010
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various
What happens when you host a protest in front of a photoradar company's headquarters on the outskirts of Phoenix and the headline speaker is the Sheriff in the neighboring county? A lot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Bosom Bombers Conspiracy: Women have explosive breast implants
2-7-10
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WorldNetDaily.com
Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives â€" usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) â€" are inserted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Bush & Clinton Skills on View: Haitian's Still Starving 24 Days Later
2-7-10
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InformationClearingHouse.info
Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Political Parties
Tea Party Queen Sarah Palin: Country Needs Divine Intervention
2-7-10
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guardian.co.uk/
"we don't have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again".
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