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Date Sent: 2009-04-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, April 20, 2009 PM edition |
Zero Percent on Treasury Bills as China, Fed Converge -- FBI spied on TEA Party Americans!
Economic Crisis Debate -- Responses to Piracy - by US Rep. Ron Paul -- Rep. Jane Harmon Recorded on Wiretap promising to intervene on AIPAC’s Behalf -- Photo radar employee shot, killed and suspect arrested -- GOP's Civil Liberties Hypocrisy -- Court to decide if prosecutors can be sued -- Markets Take a Dive After Good Earnings Reports Released -- Waterboarding Used 183 Times on a Suspect -- Obama wants agency spending cut by $100M -- China seeks oversight of reserve currency issuers -- Goldman Sachs Sues Blogger “Goldmansachs666.com” -- Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box" - by Stephen Lendman -- Key witness in US passport fraud murdered -- Rasmussen Poll on Global Warming -- High: The True Tale of American Marijuana
AZ: Breakfast Thurs., Justice Project, innocent people in prison; Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday features beaten down but not out Pastor Steven Anderson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Zero Percent on Treasury Bills as China, Fed Converge
04-20-2009
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Bloomberg
Demand for bills is rising [to zero] again because investors including foreign central banks are snapping up the shortest- term US securities as the Federal Reserve buys Treasuries to drive down borrowing costs in a policy of so-called quantitative e
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI spied on TEA Party Americans!
04-20-2009
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Canadian Free Press
Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed against them.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: $400 Billion More In Bank Losses On The Way
04-20-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Accounting gains shenanigans magically turned another Citigroup loss into a $1.6 billion gain and Wells Fargo's earnings report was so full of holes the CEO ought to be under investigation for signing it.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures: Movin' on up!
04-20-2009
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CalculatedRiskblog.com
Zach Fox at the North County Times brings us another half off sale ... this time in a little higher price range. This is a 5,500 sq foot home in Escondido. Zach says the bank ate $815,000.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bussard Polywell Fusion Funded
04-20-2009
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arclein
I can see the navy been very keen on this technology working. In retrospect they are even the best partner. After all they have a natural heat sink available to dispose of surplus energy.
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tower of Basel
04-20-2009
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arclein
This article reveals that need is forcing the creation of a fresh fiat currency system, and ultimately a fresh fiat credit system. That established institutions are stepping into the breach is more an indication of the need to fill the vacuum and mus
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Economic Crisis Debate - Parts 1 - 8
04-20-2009
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YouTube
Economic Crisis Debate held at Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona, March 10, 2009 / Debate Question: Can Government Spending Stabilize Our Economy?
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Worst Year in Fortune 500 History, 84.7% Profit Decline
04-20-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog/
Profits fell from $645 billion in profits in 2007, to just $98.9 billion - an 84.7% decline;
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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Feature Article • World News
Responses to Piracy
by US Rep. Ron Paul
Powell Gammill
What is the best way to deal with a gang of criminals, not acting on behalf of any country, when they attack private vessels? Under whose jurisdiction are these types of criminals to be prosecuted? How do we deter such attacks in the future?
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Photo radar employee shot, killed on Loop 101; suspect arrested
04-20-2009
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abc15.com
A RedFlex employee, who was shot multiple times while inside a photo-radar van in north Phoenix, has died. Phoenix Channel 15 video.
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Reported by:
Tyger Gilbert
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News Link • Police State
GOP's Civil Liberties Hypocrisy
04-20-2009
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www.consortiumnews.com
(Republicans don't like it when _their_ political base is targeted by the Police State)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Spirit Is Ailing But Still Running
04-20-2009
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Washington Post
The old rover was supposed to work for only 90 days, enough time to crawl two-thirds of a mile across the Martian desert. More than five years later, Spirit has put five miles on its odometer and is still rolling along -- but getting mighty cranky.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court to decide if prosecutors can be sued
04-20-2009
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AP
The Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors have to face a lawsuit from 2 men whose convictions for killing a retired cop were set aside. Evidence showed police and prosecutors failed to share evidence pointing to another man
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Markets Take a Dive After Good Earnings Reports Released
04-20-2009
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Washington Post
Stock markets slumped more than 2 percent this morning after several major firms released first-quarter earnings and cautioned that the recession continues to weigh on consumers.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects
04-20-2009
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NY Times
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Coins, Mummies and Statues Point to Cleopatra Tomb
04-20-2009
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AP
Egypt's top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch Sunday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, an alabaster head and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama wants agency spending cut by $100M
04-20-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama convenes his first formal Cabinet meeting Monday and will ask department and agency chiefs to look for ways over the next 90 days to cut $100 million out of the federal budget. [laugh or cry?]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar the Target: China seeks oversight of reserve currency issuers
04-20-2009
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MarketWatch.com
Wen did not specify the United States in his remarks at the Boao Forum for Asia in China's Hainan Province. But Chinese officials have recently expressed their concern about their country's investments in dollar-denominated assets.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Goldman Sachs Sues Blogger “Goldmansachs666.com”
04-20-2009
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Ritholtz.com/blog
Let’s review your tax dollars at work: Godlman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson lobbied the SEC to allow the 5 largest iBanks to be exempt from net capital rules, and then leverage up 40 to 1. Which they did, especially with Mortgage-backed paper and derivativ
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Phoenix Real Estate: Stunning Comparison of Low End vs High End
04-20-2009
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HousingDoom.com
If you look at homes over $400K, there’s over a year’s worth of homes. Trying to sell a home in the millions? There’s at least a four year supply on the market. There is a much greater disparity now between different price ranges than we have seen
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Huffington Post pwnd by college pranksters “book burning” video
04-20-2009
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Daily Newscaster
Turns out the “book burning” video is the work of an Ohio college student who revealed to Daily Newscaster that the whole thing was a prank, referring to the film made during the Cleveland Tea Party as “satire.”
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Reported by:
D. H. Williams
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Invisible Hook and Libertarian Pirates
04-19-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
A fascinating new book by George Mason University Professor, Peter Leeson--"The Invisible Hook" (a play on Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand") demonstrates how the pirates' greedy self interest resulted in internally desirable
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • World News
Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot (Murdered)
04-20-2009
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Washington Times
A key witness in a federal probe into passport information stolen from the State Department was fatally shot in front of a District church, the Metropolitan Police Department said yesterday.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Climate Change
Rasmussen Poll on Global Warming
04-20-2009
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arclein
Yet the public is in complete revolt if these numbers hold up. Of course, the cause of public skepticism is the unrelenting lack of cooperation from the weather. Two clod winters in a row and a complete reversal of the warming trend line is impossi
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
High: The True Tale of American Marijuana
04-19-2009
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Hollowach Films
Today only (4/20), from 12:01 am to 11:59 pm, HIGH will be screening on demand on this site. Take advantage!
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gerald Celente: Americans Live in a Fascist State
04-19-2009
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Lew Rockwell
Celente takes an in-depth look at what AIG and Goldman Sachs really are and the people behind them; explains the policies of Obama’s administration, and the moral basis for a forthcoming new American Revolution.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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