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Date Sent: 2010-07-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, June 30, 2010 PM edition |
Recession cuts into employment for half of workers -- UN: Scrap dollar as sole reserve currency
Russia Buys 22 Tons Of Gold In May -- Drug Testing for Congress, Staff: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Dead -- Elena Kagan Believes "The War on Terror" Will Never End! -- At trial, Noriega claims Panama drug money a US-run ‘imaginary banking scheme’ -- In U.S. Bailout of A.I.G., Forgiveness for Big Banks -- Governments Moving to Cut Spending, in Echo of 1930s -- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve? -- Big Screen Documentary Exposes Pat Tillman's Assassination -- Geithner Made Sure Goldman Got All Of Its Bailout Money -- John Boehner: Raise Retirement Age To 70 to ensure paying for the war -- Death Squad Terror in Honduras - by Stephen Lendman -- Where are the environmental groups?
AZ: Tomorrow breakfast with Progressive GOP Gubernatorial Candidate, Matt Jette; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession cut into employment for half of working adults, study says
06-30-2010
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washingtonpost.com/
The recession has directly hit more than half of the nation's working adults, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours at work or part-time jobs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Scrap dollar as sole reserve currency: U.N. report
06-30-2010
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Reuters.com/
The report said a new reserve system "must not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but instead, should permit the emission of international liquidity - such as SDRs - to create a more stable global financial system."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
NASA Pic Shows BP Oil Surrounding Mississippi’s Barrier Islands
06-30-2010
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FireDogLake.com
This high-resolution image shows Petit Bois Island (top right) and the eastern end of Horn Island (top left) on June 26. In general, oil-covered waters are silvery and cleaner waters are blue-gray. This pattern is especially consistent farther...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • New World Order
The New World Order At Work: Class War and the Decline of the West
06-30-2010
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JessesCrossRoadsCafe.blogspot.com/
Current global sovereign debt is that it is largely private debt billed as public debt; that is, debt that was accumulated by financial speculators and, then, offloaded onto governments to be paid by taxpayers as national debt.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Panic brews on Gulf coast under suspicions of oil spill media blackout
06-30-2010
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Examiner.com/
Unconfirmed reports of evacuations have been circling the internet. Why announce a plan that can’t be carried out? That has led to theories that human life is more expendable than political careers and BP’s public image.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Russia Buys 22 Tons Of Gold In May
06-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
It appears Russia is only getting started. According to the latest IMF data, in the period between April and May, Russia added another 22.5 tons, bringing its May total to a fresh record of 703.1 tons.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
Drug Testing for Congress, Staff: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
06-30-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) recently introduced an amendment to a bill to require drug testing for those receiving welfare. Hatch claimed it will save money. Why not save some REAL money and start drug testing members of Congress, their staff and fede
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Activism
The Answer to “1984″ is 2010
06-30-2010
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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down
Big announcements are expected soon from CameraFRAUD, as well as from the statewide ballot initiative which is under the direction of Arizona Citizens Against Photo Radar.
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David Alpha
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News Link • Freedom Summit
Ernest Hancock on the Freedom Summit 2009
06-30-2010
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Youtube
Freedom Summit http://www.FreedomSummit.com - Events and activism leading up to the Freedom Summit with Ron Paul - Thomas Woods - Charles Goyette - Ernest Hancock - Judge john Buttrick - Marc Victor - Joel - Skousen - Bud Burrell - Stewart Rhodes - B
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Dr. Ron Paul @ Freedom Summit '09
06-30-2010
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Youtube
Dr. Ron Paul @ Freedom Summit '09 Phoenix, AZ Dec. 5th, 2010. Will you trade freedom and liberty for a false sense of security?
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Freedom Summit
Find Freedom Summit on Meetup.com
06-30-2010
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Meetup.com
Sign up here for ride shares, room shares, and to network with other activists who want to attend the Freedom Summit
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Freedom Summit
Facebook: Freedom Summit 2009 Phoenix Arizona
06-30-2010
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Facebook
Socialism and other coercive centralized planning schemes have failed to improve, and indeed have worsened, the human condition. As such, the Freedom Summit does not encourage or promote any particular centralized plan to achieve freedom.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • General Opinion
Movie Review of "Don't Tread on Me" - by "Glen, a Navy Veteran"
06-30-2010
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donthategcdaz.wordpress.com via Yahoo! search
"… And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Freedom Summit
The Freedom Summit is a regular conference dedicated to promoting and advancing human freedom.
06-30-2010
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Ernest Hancock/FreedomSummit.com
The Freedom Summit is a forum for the vigorous and peaceful exchange of ideas about how humans ought to interact with each other.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Dead
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Almost all are dead
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
"ISRAEL SHOULD NOT EXIST".......says Jewish Rabbi
06-30-2010
"You should not throw a rock through your neighbor's window and then yell anti-Semite!" says Rabbi for Jews United Against Zionism...."Ahmadinejad has a Jewish community in Iran"...
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Housing
House Prices Are Still Too High And They're Going To Tank -- Ritholtz
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Normally, after a bubble, prices not only return to the mean but crash right through it, and Ritholtz thinks that that may be possible again this time.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
19 Signs The Economy Is Worse Now Than Ever In Your Lifetime
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
There's growing evidence of a generational impact from the crisis, similar to how the Great Depression created a generation of penny pinchers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Positive News
Anger Rises at G20
06-30-2010
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RealityReport.TV
In this edition, Gary blows off some steam taking a look at Obama's agenda at the Toronto G20 Conference as protesters burn police cars. He also sits down with Kurt Wallace to discuss the NullifyNow.com national tour. Michael Boldin, founder of the
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Uncle Freedom
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
David Rosenberg: Three Very Ugly Numbers For Housing, Cars and Business
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
The internal numbers from yesterdays Consumer Confidence Survey were really very ugly. The American public has no interest in buying a house or car, and their view of the economy is down right bearish.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Drug War
At trial, Noriega claims Panama drug money a US-run ‘imaginary banking scheme’
06-30-2010
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AFP
The 76-year-old general denied taking payments from Colombian drug lords in the 1980s and told a Paris courtroom that cash deposits transferred to French banks came from his legitimate businesses and the CIA.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
In U.S. Bailout of A.I.G., Forgiveness for Big Banks
06-30-2010
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NY Times
When the government began rescuing AIG from collapse in the fall of 2008 with a $182 billion lifeline, AIG was required to forfeit its right to sue several banks over any irregularities with most of the mortgage securities it insured in the precrisis
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News Link • Economy - International
Governments Moving to Cut Spending, in Echo of 1930s
06-30-2010
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NY Times
Policy makers are betting that the private sector can make up for the withdrawal of stimulus over the next couple of years. If they’re right, they will have made a head start on closing their enormous budget deficits. If they’re wrong, they may set o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Deepwater Horizon Sinkhole: Could Release 3 Billion Barrels of Oil
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
BP has confirmed its 45-ton blowout preventer is tilting sideways up to 15 degrees. Rogue scientists point to tilting as evidence of a severely weakened well, and warn it could fall and crash the entire rig through the ocean floor.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ADP Jobs Report Way Below Expectations
06-30-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Yet another huge disappointment for markets to digest -- ADP's June employment report showed just 13,000 new jobs were added from May to June on a seasonally-adjusted basis, vs. 61,000 expected. That's clearly a huge miss.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Oil Well Casing Was Violently Ejected Upwards Into the Blowout Preventer
06-30-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The discovery suggested that the force of the erupting petroleum from BP's well on April 20 was so violent that it sent pipe segments hurtling into the blowout preventer, like derailing freight cars.
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