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Date Sent: 2009-02-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
Whistleblower protections axed from stimulus -- World stocks sag on concerns about Obama plans
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A. -- Threats send California octuplets mom into hiding -- When It is Okay and Not Okay to Lie to Congress? -- Nassim Taleb at Davos: "Clawback the Bonuses" -- Jim Rogers Tells It Like It Is: "Tim Geithner Has Been Bombing For 15 Years" -- The American Lenin - by L. Neil Smith -- Against Military Slavery - A Response to William Hauser and Jerome Slater -- Winston goes to the doctor in 2014 - by Craig Cantoni -- Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production -- MISH: UK Faces Worst Recession In 100 Years -- Congress is desperate for a solution to the mess they made -- KBR manager suspended after a second round of sexual harassment claims against him
AZ: MASSIVE CameraFRAUD Demonstration in Chandler on the 20th
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.
2-12-2009
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ABC News
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Threats send California octuplets mom into hiding
2-12-2009
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Reuters
California's octuplets mom, already jobless and receiving food stamps, has gone into hiding with her six older children because of death threats, her spokesman said. Nadya Suleman, 33, has come under mounting public ridicule for expanding her alr
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Bill Richardson tarnished by scandal
2-12-2009
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Politico
Over the span of just three months, Bill Richardson has gone from being on the shortlist for secretary of state to late-night punch line, a breathtaking descent that has tarnished his once-sparkling career.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Ancient Manioc Husbandry
02-12-2009
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arclein
Finding this item from 2007 gives us an important snapshot of a key crop in the American tropics and informs us that key crops easily moved between the Amazon and Central America
as one would reasonably expect but was disputed because of a lack of
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • World News
When It is Okay and Not Okay to Lie to Congress
02-11-2009
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Dissident Voice.com
Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged with lying to the US Congress about taking a performance-enhancing substance.Tajeda’s alleged lies about the steroid usage did not result in one person, and certainly not 1.3+ million people,
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Identity Theft
TN Rep. Eric Swafford Plaintiff in Obama Qualification Lawsuit
2-12-2009
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World Net Daily via e-mail
A new lawsuit is being prepared... and this one will include a demand from state lawmakers who forward state funds to Washington for documentation of his qualifications.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Police State
Militarizing Police Departments With Your Bailout Money
2-12-09
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PrisonPlanet.com & Lone Star Times
• Gary, Indiana wants $750,000 for a host of “modernization” upgrades to its police department, including “sub-automatic machine guns” and an “armored vehicl”
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Nassim Taleb at Davos: "Clawback the Bonuses"
2-12-09
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YouTube.com
The silence was overwhelming when Nassim Taleb had the temerity to suggest that the bonuses of the Wall Street financiers should be withdrawn as punishment for ripping off the taxpayer. Maria Bartiromo looked ashen.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Indoctrinate U" Viewing
02/12/2009
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Phoenix Objectivists
Phoenix Objectivists will host a viewing of the documentary "Indoctrinate U" at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism on Thursday, February 12th at 7 p.m.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Jim Rogers Tells It Like It Is: "Tim Geithner Has Been Bombing For 15 Years"
2-12-09
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YouTube.com
Jim Rogers rips the hide off Tim Geithner in this Bloomberg video.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • History
The American Lenin
02-12-2009
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L. Neil Smith
History tells us that Lincoln was a politically ambitious lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself to northern industrialists who were unwilling to pay world prices for their raw materials and who, rather than practice real capitalism, enlisted brute g
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Draft
Against Military Slavery - A Response to William Hauser and Jerome Slater
02-12-2009
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Karen Kwiatkowski for LewRockwell.com
...mandatory American national service as the cure " more Americans to man-up and prepare to die for the government overseas, with the remainder fearfully indoctrinated on the necessities of eternal service and submission to the state.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • History
A 'Lincoln Scholar' Comes Clean
02-12-2009
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo for LewRockwell.com
Marvel does not hide the fact, as most other Lincoln "scholars" do, that Seward, on Lincoln’s instructions, orchestrated the passing through the U.S. Senate of a "constitutional amendment specifically prohibiting congressional interfer
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian and US satellites collide
02-12-2009
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BBC
The US commercial Iridium spacecraft hit a defunct Russian satellite at an altitude of about 800km (500 miles) over Siberia on Tuesday, Nasa said.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Whistleblower protections axed from stimulus
2-12-09
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Rawstory.com
The Senate quietly stripped whistleblower protections from the final stimulus package Wednesday afternoon, as the bill's authors bragged of a bipartisan compromise.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
2-12-09
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GlobalResearch.ca
California is facing its worst drought in recorded history . The drought is predicted to be the most severe in modern times, worse than those in 1977 and 1991. Thousands of acres of row crops already have been fallowed, with more to follow.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
UK Faces Worst Recession In 100 Years
2-12-09
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the economic downturn, Ed Balls even predicted that its effects would still be felt 15 years from now. The Schools Secretary's comments carry added weight because he is a former chief economic a
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
93-Year-Old Man Who Froze Left Estate To Hospital
02-12-09
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Melinda Carey
A 93-year-old man who froze to death after the municipal power company restricted his electricity left $600,000 to a local hospital. PLEASE NOTE...Governor Granholm issued a statewide moratorium on utility cutoffs that DOES NOT apply to municipal ut
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Reported by:
Melinda Carey
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago - Audio
02-11-2009
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Daily Newscaster
Indiana municipal official gives an account of meetings with FEMA & DHS beginning with a Hazard Mitigation Plan but soon FEMA & DHS officials began to inquire about sensitive infrastructure, weapons storage, creating \\\"hardened\\\" bunke
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - International
World stocks sag on concerns about Obama plans
2-12-1009
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AP
World stock markets fell [for the second day] Thursday amid pessimism about the Obama administration's plans to fix the US banking system and restore the overall health of the world's largest economy. European stocks were also undermined by
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congress is desperate for a solution to the mess they made
02-12-2009
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Mark Yannone
It's not complicated, and it's inevitable. If we begin now, we will avoid enormous misery.
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News Link • World News
KBR manager suspended after a second round of sexual harassment claims against him
02-11-2009
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www.uaff.us
A private contractor (KBR) at the British Embassy in Iraq has been removed from his post after a second round of sexual harassment claims against him, sources say.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Cutting the Mortgage Baby in Half
02-12-2009
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arclein
The globe has lost half of its wealth and associated credit. Please sit down and consider that for a while. This means that no loans can be profitably called. All bank assets are technically under water. That means that their capital base is really z
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robert klein
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