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Date Sent: 2009-02-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 11, 2009 PM Edition |
America’s economic and political system came within hours of collapsing in September 2008
Meredith Whitney speaks out on Geithners Bank Bailout -- Internment Camps Readied For Mass Illegal Alien Influx from Mexico? -- 16 Trillion Euro in Toxic Bank Assets Throws European Union into Crisis -- One Liberal Has Had it With President Obama -- Amnesty International: Hamas carrying out 'deadly campaign' against opponents in Gaza -- Martin Wolf of Financial Times: Is Obama's Presidency Already a Failure? -- Bankers: Cut My Pay? Take Your Money Back! -- Van Spirits Away Protester in Egypt, Signaling Crackdown on Criticism Over Gaza -- Michael Moore seeks banking industry whistleblowers... -- Favre says he's retiring...yet again -- Karl Denninger: The Final Countdown -- Gerald Celente: The Greatest Depression, Violence, Tax Revolt and Revolution Coming -- IN SIRIUS TROUBLE -- Iranian TV Requests Obama Interview -- European bank bail-out could push EU into crisis -- Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks -- Why Suicide? How an intelligent man could be driven to consider suicide! - by Clay Douglas -- Obama's "War on Terror" - by Stephen Lendman -- MARINE VETERAN KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL AND RAILROADED FOR NON EXISTENT "CRIME" -- Global Warming Heat -- Drug gang clash with army kills 21 in Mexico near the U.S. border
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News Link • Obama Administration
Meredith Whitney speaks out on Geithners Bank Bailout
2-11-09
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Reuters.com/
"Nothing the government can do is capable of altering the unavoidable reality that fewer American businesses and consumers will have access to prior levels of credit," Oppenheimer & Co's Whitney said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Homeland Security
Internment Camps Readied For Mass Illegal Alien Influx from Mexico?
2-11-09
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PrisonPlanet.com
“Texas officials are working on a plan to respond to a potential collapse of the Mexican government and the specter of thousands fleeing north in fear for their lives after recent reports indicated the country could be on the verge of chaos.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
16 Trillion Euro in Toxic Bank Assets Throws European Union into Crisis
2-11-09
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Jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
The prescription for a cure must include the option to nationalize, liquidate, investigate, and prosecute. And above all to act not out of fear, or of vengance, but with a practical and comprehensive justice.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
William Engdahl: U.S. Economy Faces 10 Years of Pure Hell in Greatest Depression
2-11-09
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therealnews.com/
In this nine minute interview William Engdahl explains the relationship between the dollar and other major currencies as well as the state of the worlds economy.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
One Liberal Has Had it With President Obama
2-11-09
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AfterDowningStreet.org
You can feel the deep sense of betrayal that some liberals are starting to exhibit when talking about Barak Obama, but John Perry's parting words say it all.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Amnesty International: Hamas carrying out 'deadly campaign' against opponents in Gaza
2-11-2009
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Haaretz
"Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip have carried out a deadly campaign of abductions, killings, torture and death threats against those they accuse of 'collaborating' with Israel, as well as opponents and critics," the human rights grou
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Martin Wolf of Financial Times: Is Obama's Presidency Already a Failure?
2-11-09
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optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com/
And yet he is clearly letting events take control of him, with Congress taking the lead on the stimulus plan and, even more ominously, allowing his Treasury Secretary to continue the failed policies of the prior administration.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cut My Pay? Take Your Money Back!
2-11-2009
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NY Times
Wall Street banks have taken billions of taxpayer dollars. Now some of them are starting to wonder if they should give the money back. Banking executives worry that the government may intrude further into their businesses as long as they are beholden
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California's Pain Is Only Beginning
02-11-2009
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Wall Street Journal
As Sacramento squabbles over the state's $42 billion deficit, Californians are getting a bitter taste of what's to come after the steep budget cuts that are inevitable when legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger finally hammer out a deal.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Virgin Atlantic accused of sexism over anniversary advert
2-11-2009
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Daily Telegraph (video)
Virgin Atlantic's anniversary TV ad campaign, featuring crowds lusting after female cabin crew, has prompted complaints to the advertising watchdog that it is sexist and insulting to women.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn That Makes People Puke
2-11-2009
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The Onion
Acknowledging its embarrassment over worldwide outbreaks of violent, uncontrolled regurgitation, the Japanese government apologized to the millions of viewers who have been sickened over the past 3 decades by the revolting depravity of the nation'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Van Spirits Away Protester in Egypt, Signaling Crackdown on Criticism Over Gaza
2-12009
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NYTimes via e-mail from a relative of Mr. Rizk!
Philip Rizk... was detained for hours and then hustled into an unmarked van and driven off. He has not been seen or heard from since.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • China
A Shot Across the Bow: China Needs U.S. Guarantees for Treasuries, Yu Says
2-11-09
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Bloomberg.com
China should seek guarantees that its $682 billion holdings of U.S. government debt won’t be eroded by “reckless policies,” said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the central bank.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
For good this time? Favre says he's retiring
02-11-2009
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NBC Sports
NEW YORK - Brett Favre informed the New York Jets on Wednesday he will retire after 18 seasons, ending a record-setting career in which he was one of the NFL’s premier quarterbacks.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Karl Denninger: The Final Countdown
2-11-09
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Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/
The Triangle on that chart has a target ~3700 points lower, or if we were to break it tomorrow, approximately DOW 4200.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Bankers go before Congress today to defend bailout
02-11-2009
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MyWay - AP
If Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could get an earful of skepticism over the government's financial bailout plans, the nation's top bankers can expect no less when they make their maiden voyage to Congress as recipients of the widely cri
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente: The Greatest Depression, Violence, Tax Revolt and Revolution Coming
2-11-09
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PrisonPlanet.com & Youtube (VIDEO)
In 2009 were going to see the worst economic collapse ever, the Greatest Depression, says Gerald Celente, U.S. trend forecaster. He believes its going to be very violent in the U.S., including there being a tax revolt.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Iranian TV Requests Obama Interview
02-11-2009
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CBS
(CBS/AP) The U.N.-based Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the official news organization of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has told CBS News Tuesday that it has officially asked for an interview with President Barack Obama as a direct response to
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Agriculture
Buffalo Commons Revisit
02-11-2009
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arclein
The thesis today is better accepted and the response is now better directed for this insight. Most importantly, step by step, the buffalo is been reintroduced and properly managed. The herds are expanding steadily, but not as fast as natural expansio
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Radio
IN SIRIUS TROUBLE
02-11-2009
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New York Post
Two sources familiar with the situation said Sirius XM is favoring a Chapter 11 filing over a deal with satellite-TV operator EchoStar, whose CEO, Charlie Ergen, has been buying up Sirius XM debt in a bid to take control of the company.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
European bank bail-out could push EU into crisis
02-11-2009
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www.telegraph.co.uk
A bail-out of the toxic assets held by European banks' could plunge the European Union into crisis, according to a confidential Brussels document.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks
02-11-2009
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Financial Times
Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Sheriff Lott is a H-E-R-O
09-20-2008
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Daily Newscaster
The sheriff who lead the charge in the Michael Phelps Marijuana case arresting eight and confiscating the famous BONG from eBay owns a armored vehicle and 50 Cal. machine guns and he is not afraid to use them against citizens of South Carolina.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
America’s economic and political system came within hours of collapsing in September 2008
02-11-2009
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Daily Newscaster
On Thursday, at about 11 o’clock in the morning, the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the United States to a tune of $550 billion being drawn out in a matter of an hour or two. “It would have been the end of
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New National Pastime
02-11-2009
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Mark Yannone
The intended consequences of the federal government's economic stimulus plan are almost too great for Peter Schiff to forecast.
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News Link • Police State
MARINE VETERAN KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL AND RAILROADED FOR NON EXISTENT "CRIME"
02-11-2009
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Oregon Firearms Federation
A Marine Veteran was falsely arrested and charged with possession of a firearm in a public building, had all his criminal charges dropped by the Polk County DA tonight.(02-10-2009)
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Heat
02-11-2009
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arclein
Recent days have seen some fairly hysterical mutual abuse between the two camps who have even gone so far as to associate themselves with the politics of the left and right.
I want you to think about what I just said. How can an issue of science h
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Baltic Dry Index and Empty Store Shelves
02-11-2009
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Surviving the Middle Class Crash
The relatively unknown Baltic Dry Index, or BDI is a leading economic indicator. Read this article, watch the video, then start stocking up on things you need while you can.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Drug War
Drug gang clash with army kills 21 in Mexico near the U.S. border
02-11-2009
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Reuters
Mexican soldiers fought gun battles with drug cartel hitmen near the U.S. border on Tuesday after gangsters abducted local police in violence that killed 21 people and left bodies strewn in the desert.
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Jim Stachowiak
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