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Date Sent: 2009-04-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, April 4, 2009 AM edition |
Administration Seeks to Bypass Congress' Bailout Rules for Firms Getting Your Earnings
Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama's Lawrence Summers -- Do 90 Percent of the Guns Used in Mexican Drug Crimes Really Come From America? -- Obama to abolish limits on U.S.-Cuba family ties -- Unemployment highest in decades, 13M jobless -- DARE and Back Again - by Will Grigg -- Some Companies Used G-20 Protests As “Training For Flu Pandemic” -- Should We Kill the Fed? - by Pat Buchanan -- The Trouble With Warren Buffett -- Reps Paul, Frank introduce bill to legalize industrial hemp -- S.C. Governor Caves to Stimulus Funds
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club today
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News Link • Obama Administration
Administration Seeks to Bypass Congress' Bailout Rules for Firms Getting Your Earnings
04-03-2009
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Washington Post
The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government o
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama's Lawrence Summers
04-03-2009
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NY Times
Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money, the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New Professionalism Roundup
04-03-2009
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The Agitator
Philly cop takes journalism student through black neighborhood. J-student reports during the ride-along, the cop refers to residents as “animals,” and the crimes he polices as “typical nigger shit.” He adds, “People hate us here. They spit at us.” I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Do 90 Percent of the Guns Used in Mexican Drug Crimes Really Come From America?
04-03-2009
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The Agitator
From Hillary Clinton to Diane Feinstein to Bob Schieffer to the New York Times, gun control proponents keep repeating the claim that 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico’s drug war were sold in the United States.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
New World Order Announced on Video At The G 20!
04-03-2009
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Youtube
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says a new world order is closer then ever.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
New Ad Introducing the Government-Backed DMV Automotive Repair Center!
04-03-2009
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Youtube (h/t Agitator)
Stop worrying about the warranty on your GM or Chrysler automobile. President Obama has announced that your warranty will be backed by the US Government. Now, getting service will be as easy as a trip to your local DMV office.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
DNA evidence frees black man convicted of bear attack
04-03-2009
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ONN
After 12 years in prison, a black man has been proven innocent via DNA testing of the horrific mauling murder of a young woman....
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama's New World Order
04-03-2009
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Time magazine
At almost every stop, Obama has made clear that the U.S. is but one actor in a global community. Talk of American economic supremacy has been replaced by a call from Obama for more growth in developing countries....with heavy emphasis on cooperation
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama to abolish limits on U.S.-Cuba family ties
04-03-2009
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Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama plans to lift longstanding U.S. restrictions on Cuba, a senior administration official said, allowing Cuban-Americans to visit families there as often as they like and to send them unlimited funds.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment highest in decades, 13M jobless
04-03-2009
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AP
The current rate would be even higher " 15.6% " if it included laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have had to settle for part-time work because they can't do any better. That's the highest on record for that number in
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Thinnest, Most Colorful TV Yet
04-03-2009
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Popular Science
A seven-layer screen"-as thin as a credit card"-will be better-looking and more efficient than LCD and plasma
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
The Army’s New Black Hawk
04-03-2009
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Popular Science
The Black Hawk helicopter has served the U.S. Army well. But it’s been around since 1979. Time for a revamp, with advanced electronics, more-powerful engines, and various other tweaks.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google Reported Sniffing At Twitter, But to What End?
04-03-2009
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Wired
Google is in "fairly early stage negotiations" to acquire Twitter, Techcrunch is reporting, while Kara Swisher says it's all nonsense.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Peter Power: Some Companies Used G-20 Protests As “Training For Flu Pandemic”
04-03-2009
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PrisonPlanet
Peter Power, the “crisis management expert” who ran drills of the very events of the London bombings on the morning of 7/7 as they were happening, told the BBC that some companies used the shut down of the city on Wednesday as a dress rehearsal for a
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
DARE and Back Again
04-03-2009
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Will Grigg for LewRockwell.com
Sitting through a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) graduation ceremony is a tedious, frustrating, and intermittently infuriating experience.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Trouble With Warren Buffett
04-03-2009
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Doug French for LewRockwell.com
During a CNBC program a viewer asked Buffett if he believed what his father Congressman Howard Buffett believed, which was: "So far as I can discover, paper money systems [like John Law’s] have always wound up with collapse and economic chaos.**
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Should We Kill the Fed?
04-03-2009
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Pat Buchanan for LewRockwell.com
Should not this creature from Jekyll Island, for all its manifold crimes and sins against the republic, also be summarily put to death?
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama demands NKorea halt 'provocative' missile launch
04-03-2009
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RawStory
US President Barack Obama demanded Friday that North Korea halt a "provocative" missile launch, as tensions flared on the possible eve of a test sure to spark a dangerous new foreign policy crisis.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Reps Paul, Frank introduce bill to legalize industrial hemp
04-03-2009
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RawStory
One of the earliest plants domesticated by man may be on the verge of a resurgence in popular production across the United States.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
S.C. Governor Caves to Stimulus Funds
04-03-2009
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Washington Post
South Carolina's Republican governor will break his political logjam with the White House over stimulus funds today, his aides said, becoming the last governor in the nation to officially seek billions of dollars in federal economic recovery fund
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News Link • Economy - International
One Global Digital Gold Currency...The Devil´s Work Indeed!
04/01/2009
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By Mark Herpel, American Chronicle
Digital Gold stands firm as a protector of personal wealth and value.
I am constantly amazed at the bad information I see and read regarding digital gold or digital gold currency.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Immigration
At least 13 dead in Binghamton, New York shooting
04/03/2009
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By Daniel Nasaw in Washington, guardian.co.uk
A gunman killed at least 12 and took as many as 41 people hostage at an upstate New York immigrant counselling centre this morning, shocking a nation already reeling from several mass shootings this year. Authorities later found the gunman dead.
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Opinion • Books
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Part 1: Overpopulation--Overloading Australia
04-03-2009
Frosty Wooldridge
“Well Yank, you must be dead from the neck up!” I answered, “Yes, but it’s a great adventure.” He responded, “Do you know what the Nullabor Plains means?” I said, “No.” He said, “It means treeless for 2,000 kms and 40 degrees C. every day. You’
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