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Date Sent: 2010-06-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
Afghan War Now Country's Longest -- Laffer Frets Over Pending Tax Collapse
Debt To Eclipse 19 Trillion – US To Become Next Greece? -- Going to jail for Credit Card Debts! -- I Was Unable to Cast a Vote on L.A. County's ES&S E-Voting System (Again) Today -- Britain's Unofficial One Child Policy -- Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers -- Guards in Afghanistan Face Inquiry For bribing Taliban insurgents -- Obama May Send National Guard To Gulf Coast -- Do we fund the weapons or the troops who use them? -- T-Bills Flashing Trouble -- Arizona's Debt Increased 5X in Ten Years -- New sanctions against Iran
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News Link • Afghanistan
Editor's Notebook: Afghan War Now Country's Longest
06-09-2010
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ABC News
Under the order of a new commander-in-chief, the U.S. is now "surging" forces into Afghanistan; a new and complex mission looms in Kandahar; and the Taliban are "surging," too " to devastating effect.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Laffer Frets Over Pending Tax Collapse
06-09-2010
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arclein
Tax hikes expected to hit after the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will cause today's corporate profits to tumble next year " probably right after a stock market collapse, says economist Arthur Laffer, chairman of Laffer Associates and inventor of
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke Warns Congress Not To Cut Spending
06-09-2010
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Huffington Post
While the conventional wisdom in Washington appears to focus largely on the need to lower the federal government's budget deficit, rather than on reducing the nation's nearly 10 percent unemployment rate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP bad dream: Birther on ticket
06-09-2010
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Politico
Orly Taitz is an Israeli émigré who has spent the past two years filing lawsuits challenging President Barack Obama’s right to be president on the grounds that he was born in Kenya. In the process, she has earned herself $20,000 in court fines.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
Rising Chinese businessman murdered on orders of party official
06-09-2010
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McClatchy News
Zhu Baoqi should have been a shining example of China's economic miracle in the heartland of the ruling Communist Party. As government funds flooded into industry and construction across his home province of Shaanxi, Zhu became a rich man.
Startin
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge dismisses Ariz. charges against Warren Jeffs
06-09-2010
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AP
A Mohave County judge dismissed all Arizona charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a prosecutor said continuing with the charges would be "impractical." Dismiss the 4 charges of sexual conduct with a minor.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Warrant issued for man over obscene jury summons response
06-09-2010
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Yuma Sun
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Yuma man who sent his jury questionnaire back to the court clerk's office with obscenities written on it. When Jones did not show up for his court appearance, a Superior Court Judge issued a bench warrant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Propaganda
A bill’s name is part of the game
06-09-2010
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Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University
The Patriot Act: Name in Action
When you ask a political strategist about the impact of a bill’s name, they all point to the same example.
The USA Patriot Act of 2001 was actually an acronym for a much longer name: Uniting and Strengthening Ameri
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Afghanistan
NATO Plan Ties Afghan Economy to Growth of Forces
06-07-2010
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Ian Graham, DOD
The economic power of military-fueled industry has been illustrated throughout history, and it looks like the growth of the Afghan National Security Forces will be a boon to developing industries in Afghanistan.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
High school students disciplined for "Beat the Jew" game
06-09-2010
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The Los Angeles Times
Several high school students in La Quinta, California have been disciplined for their involvement in a late-night game of tag called "Beat the Jew " on school grounds last month.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Start up health insurer closes
06-09-2010
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Richmond Biz Sense
A startup health insurer is forced to shut down because of uncertainty surrounding health care reform.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Israel
Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound ship
06-09-2010
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The Washington Post
Israel allowed some earlier ships to reach Gaza and stopped others, boarding a boat in at least one case. The largest flotilla by far, was dominated not by Free Gaza but by three ships sent by an Islamic group that is alleged to have ties to Hamas.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Marriage
Interracial marriages at an all time high
06-09-2010
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CNN
A study released Friday, which interviewed couples married for less than a year, found racial lines are blurring as more people choose to marry outside their race.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Our new war with Mexico
06-09-2010
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AP
The Mexican authorities accused the Americans of trying to recover evidence from Mexican soil and threatened to kill them if they crossed the border, prompting both sides to draw their guns, said the 16-year-old boy who asked not to be further identi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Serial killer suspect targeted in sting, not arrested
06-09-2010
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AP
The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran van der Sloot in the notorious Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, and he was videotaped and paid $25,000 in a sting operation. But when the agency delayed his arrest to help build a criminal case, he to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
You think your student loans are bad?!!!!
06-09-2010
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Huffington Post
Some of the nation's largest and most elite universities stand to gain millions of dollars from selling the names and addresses of students and alumni to credit card companies while granting the companies special access to school events, the Huffingt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
This is what happens when you don't bother to rig the election
06-09-2010
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Yahoo! News blog
Greene, a 32-year-old unemployed military veteran who lives with his parents, defeated Vic Rawl for the Democratic Senate nomination despite having run essentially no public campaign " no events, no signs, no debates, no website, no fundraising. The
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics
Year of the political woman redux? Looks that way
06-09-2010
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AP
Hundreds of female candidates have set their sights on Congress, governorships and state legislatures, and a significant number racked up big wins in Tuesday's primaries. Republican women, in particular, served notice to the old boys of the party.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Debt To Eclipse 19 Trillion " US To Become Next Greece?
06-09-2010
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DRScoundrels
19,600,000,000,000.
That is a terrifying number.
That is the new debt that we could be hitting as of 2015.
Where are the people who were screaming at Bush II for a debt of 500 billion by the end of 8 years?
Excuse me " this deficit was 10
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is This High-Def Video Why BP's Stock Is Getting Crushed?
06-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The recording from last week shows a high resolution camera -- not the fuzzy image we're used to -- that BP previously refused to release. Based on the video, scientists are quickly revising leak estimates.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Debtors Jail is Here! Going to jail for Credit Card Debts!
06/09/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
As a sheriff's deputy dumped the contents of Joy Uhlmeyer's purse into a sealed bag, she begged to know why she had just been arrested while driving home to Richfield after an Easter visit with her elderly mother.
No one had an answer. Uhlmeyer
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Census
Census taker arrested in Puna
06/08/10
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hawaii Tribune-Herald
When governments collide.
A battle is brewing between the state and federal governments over a Census taker arrested in Puna for misdemeanor trespassing.
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
20 More Signs Of A Full-On Economic Collapse
06-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
We have squandered the great wealth left to us by our forefathers, we have almost totally dismantled the world's greatest manufacturing base, we have shipped millions of good jobs overseas and we have piled up the biggest mountain of debt...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Treasury's Delusions: Tim Geithner's Latest Projections For US Public Debt
06-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
This means that it will be in the US' interest to generate ongoing solvency, liquidity and geopolitical tensions for the next 5 years and likely much longer. Another benefit - the US defense sector's taxable net incomes will soar.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
'The Rig's on Fire! I Told You This Was Gonna Happen!'
06-09-2010
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TheAtlantic.com
Speaking with someone in Houston via satellite phone. Buzbee told Mother Jones that, according to this witness account, Harrell was screaming, "Are you f---ing happy? Are you f---ing happy? The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
BP 'manipulating search results' on Google following oil spill
06-09-2010
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Timesonline.co.uk
The company is purchasing terms such as “oil spill”, “Deepwater Horizon” and “Gulf of Mexico”, so that when a user types these words into the search engines, the results prominently feature a “sponsored link” to BP’s official page...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
British Petroleum: The Nuclear Option
06-09-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
If BP has discovered the mother of all fields with pressures so enormous, they can’t be controlled with modern technology, a possibility which some geologists admit, then more huge leaks will spring and the nuclear option will be the only one left.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
BAM!: Barack Obama is KickAss!
06-09-2010
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Mondo Frazier
If you live in the Gulf Coast region, you’ve been waiting for this for a couple months. NOW, it’s here! Barack Obama is KICKASS! He’s looking for someone to blame and it better not be you!
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Israel
Thomas’ Remarks are Biblically Sound
06-09-2010
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Rev. Ted Pike
Amid the uproar over White House reporter Helen Thomas’ remarks that the Israelis should “get the hell out of there” and return to the nations is a much obfuscated fact: In her salty way, she is only repeating how God feels about Israel’s biblically
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke admits "No plan to fix the deficit."
06-09-2010
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Daily Paul
Well that was obvious. But it's shocking that he admits it. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has warned about a tough recovery ahead, in an interview with CNN.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
I Was Unable to Cast a Vote on L.A. County's ES&S E-Voting System (Again) Today
06-09-2010
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BradBlog
I spent more than two and a half hours not casting a vote on the system before eventually I, the poll workers, and, apparently, the folks at the L.A. County Registrar's central help desk call center, simply gave up.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
To the Graduates of the Government Indoctrination Centers by Szandor Blestman
06-09-2010
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Mr. Blestman himself! via AmericanChronicle.com
"My youngest daughter graduated from high school this year, or as I like to call it, the government indoctrination center."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Propaganda
The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4
04-29-2009
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video.google.com
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Classified cable from US Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave, 13 Jan 2010
06-09-2010
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Wikileaks
This document, released by WikiLeaks on February 18th 2010 at 19:00 UTC, describes meetings between embassy chief Sam Watson (CDA) and members of the Icelandic government, together with British Ambassador Ian Whiting.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Britain's Unofficial One Child Policy
06-09-2010
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SkyNews
Yvette Garside wanted to take her children for a swim. But pool attendants in Bolton insisted that Ryan and Jordanna, aged five and two respectively, each had to be accompanied by an adult.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
Bilderberg Treads On Us!
06-09-2010
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RealityReport.TV
What is unifying the freedom movement? Who are the biggest names at this years Bilderberg Conference? How is Barack Obama spinning the numbers on unemployment rates? Is the United States a few years away from a Greek-like economic meltdown? Who is re
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Free Speech
Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers targets press freedom?
06-09-2010
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YouTube
In the past few weeks the U.S. has witnessed an aggressive crack down on whistleblowers. For many the Obama administration's tough investigative stance on unauthorized press leaks goes against the president's own election promises to bring back openn
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Approach Hydrogen Oxygen Splitting
06-09-2010
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arclein
But man-made systems that exist today are very inefficient and often require additional use of sacrificial chemical agents. In this context, it is important to establish new mechanisms by which water splitting can take place.
Now, a unique approac
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Convoy Guards in Afghanistan Face an Inquiry: For bribing Taliban insurgents
06-06-2010
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DEXTER FILKINS
For months, reports have abounded here that the Afghan mercenaries who escort American and other NATO convoys have been bribing Taliban insurgents to let them pass. A series of events last month that suggested all-out collusion with the insurgents.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Graphane Yields New Potential
06-09-2010
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arclein
y, have discovered the strategic extraction of hydrogen atoms from a two-dimensional sheet of graphane naturally opens up spaces of pure graphene that look - and act - like quantum dots.
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
Exxon Valdez Lawyer: Louisianans, 'To Use A Legal Term,' Are 'Just F---ed'
06-09-2010
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Informationclearinghouse.info/
"This is more important than banks," he said. "This is oil. And at some point in time, the administration and the states will resolve all their dealings and it will leave fisherman and the tourist industry to resolve their differences in the courts.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Creepy: Obama May Send National Guard To Gulf Coast
06-09-2010
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npr.org/blogs/
The White House says National Guard soldiers may be deployed to help people fill out the paperwork BP is demanding.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Housing's Double Dip: Numbers Tell How Bad It Is
06-09-2010
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CNBC.com
Because so many of the pendings were short sales, a larger percentage than normal will not close but I still think Existing Sales increase decently in May, then level out in June before plunging in July."
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News Link • Housing
Genius At Work: Building More Homes To Drive Up Prices
06-09-2010
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HousingDoom.com
Last week, three House members introduced a $15 billion stimulus bill to provide homebuilders with construction loans. Yep " the plan is to build more houses in an attempt to save the housing industry from its oversupply of houses. Irony just died.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
DEFENSE CUTS: TROOPS OR GUNS? Do we fund the weapons or the troops who use them?
06-08-2010
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Chet Nagle
Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn says we cannot afford guns and butter. Do we fund the weapons or the troops who use them? One thing is certain: no one is going to be happy. Last week Lynn confirmed what Robert Gates said: Major cuts are comi
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Housing
MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications decline 35% over last four weeks
06-09-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Purchase applications are now 35 percent below their level of four weeks ago, as homebuyers have not yet returned to the market following the expiration of the homebuyer tax credit at the end of April,” said Michael Fratantoni...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
XCOR Tests Hydrogen Piston Pump
06-09-2010
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arclein
the primary launch services provider to the US Government, announced the first successful demonstration of XCOR's long life, high performance piston pump technology with liquid hydrogen.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inverted "Death Cross" In Investment Grade Credit Spells Trouble
06-09-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
From a purely simplistic technical perspective IG credit’s death cross is forecasting more difficult days ahead in the credit markets and that is certain to coincide with more difficulty in the equity markets. Investors would be wise to take note.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alert: T-Bills Flashing Trouble
06-09-2010
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Economicedge.blogspot.com/
With a rate this low, it is signaling some major players want complete safety--zero risk tolerance for the very short-term.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Debt Intervention and Denial: Arizona's Debt Increased 5X in Ten Years
06-09-2010
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AZcentral.com
Paying off that debt will strain state budgets for years to come. For the fiscal year that starts July 1, the state must make a $232 million debt payment out of its general fund.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Hillary Wields Her Ax: New sanctions against Iran
06-09-2010
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AntiWar.com
The looming UN Security Council vote on new sanctions against Iran will implement the “most significant sanctions” ever, according to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
OKLAHOMA Could Vote to Bar Sharia/Islamic Law - May Be on Fall Ballot
06/09/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Oklahoma sure doesn't seem like the kind of place where the Islamic law code known as Sharia might take over. With just 30,000 Muslims out a population of nearly 3.7 million, and a whole wheat, corn-fed reputation that inspired the Rodgers and Hamme
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