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Date Sent: 2009-02-10
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 10, 2009 PM Edition |
Senate passes Obama's economic bailout -- US judges seek massive CA prisoner release
Examining Obama's job and pork claims -- Obama wants National Health Information Czar -- Memos to the people responsible for today’s economic crisis- by Craig Cantoni -- Australia fears more than 200 dead in bushfires -- Secret shots given to US Soldiers -- Media group asks US to stop detaining journalists -- Televisions 'to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years' -- Treasury Secretary Geithner Says ‘Comprehensive’ Bailout to Be Costly -- Jim Rogers: Banks Rescue Will 'Make Things Worse' -- Members of the Black Press not Happy with President Obama -- Fannie & Freddie may need more than $200 Billion promised if housing crashes -- Domination & despotism: What America and Zimbabwe have in common -- Former Lieutenant Governor of New York says Stimulus contains rationed medicine -- Gitmo Detainee’s ‘Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel’ -- Michael Shedlock: Insanity Prevails -- Obama, The Market Is Issuing You a Warning! -- FAA says Hackers broke into agency computers -- Virginia Passes Anti-Real ID Bills Out of Committee!
AZ: Activist Workshop in Need of Labor Tomorrow
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate passes Obama's economic recovery plan
2-10-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations. Just 3 Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they're already signaling they'll play hardball to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Announcement: Ted Nugent Lends Support to Second Amendment March! (MUHAHA)
2-10-2009
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secondamendmentmarch.com via WND
The Second Amendment March is proud to announce that rock-n-roll legend and Second Amendment Activist Ted Nugent has enthusiastically agreed to perform and speak at the Second Amendment March in Spring 2010
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Gun Rights
'Million Gun March' Gaining Steam (he reports with glee : )
2-10-2009
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WorldNetDaily via e-mail
A coalition is being assembled to march on Washington to deliver... a message that the Second Amendment is critical as the single right that allows Americans to ensure continuation of all of the others.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wholesale inventories plunge by most in 16 years
2-10-2009
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AP
Wholesalers cut back on their inventories in December by the largest amount in 16 years, slashing stockpiles amid the deepening recession. The reduction means wholesalers ordered fewer new goods, leading to reduced production and potentially more job
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Examining Obama's job, pork claims
2-10-2009
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AP
That's not to say the package steers clear of waste or parochial interests. Obama played to such interests, speaking at one point as if he'd come to fill potholes. A look at Obama's claims on the bailout, and the news conference called to
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama wants National Coordinator of Health Information Technology
2-10-09
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Bloomberg.com
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bailout madmen like clowns throwing candy at a parade
02-10-2009
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Strike The Root
They think wild money throwing is a good idea, but they are really rotting everyone's teeth.
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Reported by:
Anne Loucks
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News Link • World News
Australia fears more than 200 dead in bushfires
2-10-2009
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Reuters
Australian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists as the death toll from the nation's worst bushfires looked likely to top 200. The bushfires which swept through Victoria on Saturday nig
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Secret shots given to US Soldiers
02-10-2009
Dr. Alfred Adams found this clip on secret shots being give to US Soldiers.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Media group asks US to stop detaining journalists
2-10-2009
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Committee to Protect Journalists
A media watchdog group is urging President Obama to end US military practice of detaining journalists without charges, and an investigation into killings of journalists by US forces. The detention of journalists without trial by US authorities in suc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
U.S. judges seek massive California prisoner release
2-10-2009
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Reuters
Federal judges ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next 3 years to stop dangerous overcrowding. As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percent
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Televisions 'to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years'
02-10-2009
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www.telegraph.co.uk
Meanwhile "emotional viewing" could be another development in television technology, according to a report commissioned by the technology retailer Comet.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Treasury Secretary Geithner Says ‘Comprehensive’ Bailout to Be Costly
2-10-09
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Bloomberg.com
“The financial system is working against recovery, and that’s the dangerous dynamic we need to change,” Geithner said in excerpts of his prepared remarks for delivery today in Washington.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney - Tim Geithner's Arch-Nemesis?
2-10-09
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CNBC.com
Forget Timothy Geithner " Wall Street trusts Meredith Whitney. The new Treasury secretary may be unveiling a financial rescue plan on Tuesday, but it’s the Oppenheimer analyst who’s got the street cred. If Whitney says that Geithner’s approach won’t
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Excerpts from Geithner's speech on bank plan
02-10-2009
"... I want to be candid: this comprehensive strategy will cost money, involve risk, and take time. "We will have to adapt it as conditions change. We will have to try things we've never tried before. We will make mistakes. We will go t
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Jim Rogers: Banks Rescue Will 'Make Things Worse'
2-10-09
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CNBC.com
But Rogers said Geithner, who was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, "has been dead wrong about everything for 15 years in a row," and so was President Barack Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers, who acted as Treasury
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fannie & Freddie may need more than $200 Billion promised if housing crashes
2-10-09
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Ritholtz.com
This is astonishing. Even as recently as Q3 2008, the major players still had no damned clue as to how bad things were.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Domination & despotism: What America and Zimbabwe have in common
02-10-2009
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Daily Newscaster
The unprecedented transfer of wealth from American citizens to the hands of few is a clear sign that government and the corporations that control it have become completely criminal and are without conscience.
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Reported by:
D. H. Williams
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News Link • Bush Administration
Gitmo Detainee’s ‘Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel’
2-10-09
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thinkprogress.org/
Court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed’s genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, “is very far down the list of things they did,” the off
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Michael Shedlock: Insanity Prevails
2-10-09
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Hmmm let's see. We let executives rape the shareholders, pass out huge bonuses, use ridiculous amounts of leverage, and we let them stay in charge. Just how sane is that?
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: The Market Is Issuing You a Warning!
2-10-09
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net
Increasingly it is becoming clear to market observers such as Nouriel Roubini, FT's Wolf, myself and others that the fact is that these firms are and have been bankrupt and you are conspiring with others to intentionally deceive the public by ref
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
New Hampshire Fires First Shot of Civil War
02-10-2009
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Pat Dollard - Young Americans Documentary
The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a “breach of
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Reported by:
Catherine Abbitt
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News Link • Internet
FAA says Hackers broke into agency computers
02-10-2009
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Associated Press
Hackers broke into the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system last week, accessing the names and Social Security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
EEStor's Promise
02-10-2009
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arclein
But we can say something. They targeted a particle size able to provide sufficient energy density to store enough energy to drive a light electric vehicle a distance of 300 kms. This implies that any improvement in particle size will improve energ
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Police State
Virginia Passes Anti-Real ID Bills Out of Committee!
02-10-2009
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American Policy Center.
Congratulations! With your help Virginians had a Real ID Act victory last week, as both anti Real ID bills - H.B.1587 & S.B.1431 - were reported, unchanged, out of the House & Senate Transportation Committees. This means these committees heard you!
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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