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Date Sent: 2009-02-27
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 27, 2009 |
Bank Failures Drain FDIC -- Obama "withdrawal" plans on leaving 50,000 troops behind in Iraq!
National Security Structure Is Expanded -- Obama’s Budget Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas -- British Gov't lies to its citizens about its role in kidnapping people -- Feds moving enemy combatant to Ill. court -- 4 charged in multi-state suicide assistance probe -- NAIS Action Alert! -- Fannie Mae loses $25.2 billion in one quarter, asks for another bailout -- Use of the United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 to 2008 -- Doug Casey: What to Do in 'The Greater Depression' -- Jim Rogers "Things Are Going To Get Much Worse/Predicts Civil Unrest -- Rep. Kucinich: Massive Stanford Group fraud may be gov't. conspiracy -- Ron Paul "The Federal Reserve Is the Culprit! -- April's Future - Renewing America - by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster -- Mexico in Freefall: Obama's Staged Test? -- Group of Rich Americans Sues UBS to Keep Names Secret in Tax Case -- Obama's Chairman of the National Council of Intelligence: "The Tiananmen Square Massacre didn't go nearly far enough" -- Obama's AIG Rescue May Include Credit-Default Swap Backstop -- Windows 7 to ship this Sept.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Structure Is Expanded
02-26-2009
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Washington Post
President Obama's first presidential directive, outlining the organization of his national security structure, adds the attorney general, the secretaries of energy and homeland security, and the US ambassador to the UN to the National Security Co
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bank Failures Drain Insurance Fund to Lowest Level Since '93
02-26-2009
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Washington Post
The federal insurance fund that protects most bank deposits is being drained by a sharp rise in bank failures and has dwindled to its lowest level since 1993, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported yesterday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama’s Budget Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas
02-26-2009
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NY Times
The budget that President Obama proposed on Thursday is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade era of economic policy dominated by the ideas of Ronald Reagan and his supporters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
British Gov't lies to its citizens about its role in kidnapping people
02-26-2009
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Washington Post
The British government, after years of denying it had any role in the US policy of extraordinary rendition," said 2 prisoners its military forces turned over to US custody in Iraq 5 years ago were subsequently sent to a US prison in Afghanistan.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Feds moving enemy combatant to Ill. court
02-26-2009
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AP
An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in civilian court, a move the government has fought for years saying terror suspects caught in the US could be held indefi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
4 charged in multi-state suicide assistance probe
02-26-2009
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AP
Four members of an alleged assisted suicide ring were charged with helping a 58-year-old Georgia man end his life, and investigators in eight other states were looking into whether the group was involved in more deaths.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Media Ban Lifted For Bodies' Return
02-26-2009
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Washington Post
Defense Sec. Robert Gates announced lifting a 1991 government ban on news coverage of the return of the remains of fallen service members to Dover Air Base in Delaware and will let families decide whether to allow photographs and videos.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Defeating YouTube Censorship
Simple steps any internet user can take to reduce GooTube’s strangleho
02-26-09
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911blogger.com
First, GooTube responded to requests by Senator Joe Lieberman to take down videos that the government deems violent or hateful (including, of course, 9/11 Truth information). Then YouTube's parent, Google, quietly announced that its staff "p
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Drew
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News Link • Food
NAIS Action Alert!
02-26-2009
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Deborah Stockton, NICFA
The U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry will hold a hearing on NAIS on March 11. Bills to put NAIS into law, HR875 and companion Senate S814, are being pushed through Congress, as well as an Appropriations Bill with f
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fannie Mae loses $25.2 billion in one quarter, asks for bailout
02-26-2009
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Rawstory.com
Troubled US mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said Thursday it lost almost 60 billion dollars last year and asked the Treasury Department for a further 15.2 billion dollars in aid.
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Jack Gregson
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Reference Link • Military
Use of the United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 -- now
Federation of American Scientists (PDF)
Hundreds of times in the last 210 years, the United States has deployed its military forces in conflicts abroad, although the U.S. has only formally declared war on eleven occasions. A newly updated tabulation of those military deployments (pdf)
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Anthropology
Ancient statue found buried at Egypt pyramids
02-26-2009
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MSNBC
Maintenance workers at Egypt's Giza Pyramids have found an ancient quartzite statue of a seated man buried close to the surface of the desert. The statue, about life-size at five feet tall, was found north of the smallest of Giza's three mai
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
If only we were joking
02-26-2009
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Youtube
We asked my 3 and 4.5 year olds what they thought of our stimulus spending. They aren't convinced. Seems they think they might need some money to solve their own problems.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Doug Casey: What to Do in 'The Greater Depression'
02-26-2009
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Doug Casey
EUROPE IS FATED TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN THE SOURCE OF HOUSEBOYS AND MAIDS FOR THIE CHINESE IN THE NEXT GENERATION!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Rogers "Things Are Going To Get Much Worse/Predicts Civil Unrest Within A Few Years"
02-26-2009
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Youtube
Jim Rogers doesn't have much hope for the US economy. He says short stocks and divest dollars soon. Civil unrest is likely in the US. Buy commodities and farm if you can. 2/24/2009
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Kucinich: Massive Stanford Group fraud may be conspiracy
02-26-2009
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Youtube
[about 4:15] Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) talks with FOX Business about the extent of the fraud perpetrated by the Stanford Group, and the coming revelations about the case that may involve a conspiracy at the highest levels of government!
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Mexico in Freefall: Obama's Staged Test?
02-26-2009
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guardian.co.uk/
Joe Biden was widely criticised for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a "generated" international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union "tested" John F Kennedy short
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Obama "withdrawal" plans on leaving 50,000 troops behind in Iraq!
02-26-2009
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Rawstory
That figure has already raised eyebrows about the reason for such a large number of "residual" troops and suspicions the Obama administration plans to continue combat operations under the guise of training and support -- a major issue Vietn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Group of Rich Americans Sues UBS to Keep Names Secret in Tax Case
02-26-2009
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NY Times
UBS was sued on Tuesday in a Swiss federal court by wealthy American clients seeking to prevent the disclosure of their identities as part of a tax-evasion investigation by the United States Justice Department.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
"The Tiananmen Square Massacre didn't go nearly far enough"
02-26-2009
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Reason
Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman is tapped as the next chairman of the National Council of Intelligence. And while there is grumbling about his ties to the Saudi royal family and his views on Israel, this uncovered is pretty stunning:
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
CONgress says 'no' to owning primates
02-26-2009
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CNN
The House overwhelmingly voted in favor of passing the Captive Primate Safety Act on Tuesday, which prohibits people from buying or transporting primates across state lines to keep as pets. This legislation amended the Lacey Act, which had only appli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's AIG Rescue May Include Credit-Default Swap Backstop
02-26-2009
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Bloomberg.com
“Counterparties around the world continue to have significant exposure to AIG, and market conditions continue to be fragile and sensitive to the potential disorderly failure of AIG,” said the Federal Reserve. Can you say China...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Military Joining The American Resistance To Protect The Constitution
02/26/09
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YouTube
Military Joining The American Resistance To Protect The Constitution This is Freedom of Speech at it's best! As Protected and Guaranteed to me in The US Constitution!
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Ken Demyen
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News Link • Technology: Software
Windows 7 to ship this Sept.
02-26-2009
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eLectronista
Microsoft could have Windows 7 on shipping PCs by September, Compal president Ray Chen said today at an investor's conference. The PC contractor executive understands from plans that the software should be available in either late September or ea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
Return to the Gulag
02-26-2009
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Reason.tv
This documentary traces Utley's journey through former labor camps and cities in northern Russia and his final uncovering of the horrible truth [of his father's fate] at the dreaded camp city of Vorkuta within the Artic Circle.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
California Police Officers File False Report Exposed Victim Speaks Out - Live Tonight (02-26-2009) 8
02-26-2009
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http://freedomfighterradio.net
Is it illegal to video tape police?The Stockton Unified School District Police Dept., in California say, YES! While standing up for the rights of his fellow Citizens, Harry Walters Jr. was arrested by Officers Pinto and Lopez
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magnetic Portals
02-26-2009
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arclein
During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particl
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Another Autism Case WINS in Vaccine Court
02-26-2009
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Huffington Post
Last week, the parents of yet another child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were awarded a lump sum of more than $810,000 in compensation by the Court, which ruled that the MMR vaccine had caused acute brain damage.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Energy
Wind Power Integration Easy
02-26-2009
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arclein
This research has tossed up a surprising result. Wind power can be easily integrated into a power grid by a combination of more finely managed power plant operations on a timely basis (remember just in time?) and building more flexibility into the po
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robert klein
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