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Date Sent: 2009-05-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Sunday, May 31, 2009 Sunday edition |
Unemployment Topped 9% in May -- 1562 Banks will be gone: Which Banks Will Die?
Recession is the Mother of Invention -- World Bank President Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment -- Russian warship fires on village by mistake -- Is Larry Summers taking kickbacks from the banks he is bailing out?
-- US lab debuts super laser -- Arrest of Freedom Fighter Radio Was
Over A Upside Down Flag (audio) -- Oklahoma Cops Attack Paramedic In
Route To Hospital...continued -- Richard Gage on Fox discussing 911
Truth -- Mish: Click It or Ticket Insanity; 10% of Texans Have Arrest Warrants -- CFR: The End of National Currency
-- Man Arrested for Mowing Grass in City Park -- Microsoft Update
Quietly Installs Firefox Extension -- Search Engine Gives Access to
Crime Records -- America's Freest States -- Jekyll Island 2009
AZ: Cindy Sheehan in Phoenix June 4 - 5
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment Probably Topped 9% in May: U.S.
05-31-2009
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Bloomberg.com
The jobless rate climbed to 9.2 percent, the highest level since September 1983, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey ahead of the Labor Department’s June 5 report.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
1562 Banks will be gone: Which Banks Will Die?
05-31-2009
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msnbc.msn.com/
1,562 banks will be gone in the next few years.
I heard this startlingly precise number from one of the panel members at the Wall Street Journal Future of Finance Initiative conference -- a meeting which featured a keynote by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, as well as participation such heavy hitters as George Soros, Meredith Whitney, Robert Shiller, and Paul Volcker.
Let's put that prediction in perspective. Since the fall of Bear Stearns, only 61 banks have been taken over by the FDIC. If you believe this presenter, we've only seen 1/25 of the likely banking deaths. Yikes!
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hilary Clinton and Chrysler Dealers: Who made the death list and why
05-31-2009
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Zerohedge.blogspot.com/
This puzzled us. Why would there be a significant and highly positive correlation between dealer survival and Clinton donors?
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Recession is the Mother of Invention
05-31-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Over half of the companies listed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, were formed during a recession or depression. Likewise an astonishing number of products were invented during a recession of depression. These economic periods are truly the mothers of invention. However, this time the federal government is stifling all that innovation and creativity.
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Reported by:
Becky Chandler
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
A Letter for your Local Fire Station
05-31-2009
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firefightersfor911truth.org
First"a common sense test:
You’re dispatched to a house fire in a 2 story with a basement
(not balloon construction as pictured). Upon arrival, all 3 floors are well involved. After extinguishment, the neighbor across the street tells you he saw flashes on all 3 floors within seconds of each other. It turns out the owner has arson convictions on his record. You smell gasoline. Now, should you test the debris for accelerants? No matter what the owner and his friends tell you, wouldn’t you still test it? It’s a ―NO-Brainer‖…isn’t it?
NOW, HOW WOULD YOU INVESTIGATE?
Look at the facts of the WTC, specifically Tower 7, collapses:
1) Terrorists used explosives on WTC 1 in 1993.
2) Over 118 first responders reported hearing explosions before all 3 collapses, many said it sounded like the ―bang-bang-bang‖ you hear during a demolition.
3) We have video, photographic and audio evidence of explosions after the impact and before collapse.
4) Live news was reporting
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment
05-31-2009
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Bloomberg
Fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy” and rising joblessness threatens to set off political unrest across the globe.
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Reported by:
Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Has economic twilight fallen on nation's Sun Belt?
05-31-2009
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Some cities " Las Vegas, Phoenix, Fort Myers are good examples " hitched their floats to housing bubbles and got caught up in development that depended largely on, well, development itself, rather than sustainable, scalable, productive industry...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military
Vodka & artillery don't mix - Russian warship fires on village by mistake
05-30-2009
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Reuters
"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland including artillery fire at aerial targets," a navy spokesman said. "No-one was injured."
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Reported by:
Chip Saunders
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News Link • Corruption
Is Larry Summers taking kickbacks from the banks he is bailing out?
05-30-2009
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Alternet
Why did Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley steer millions to a company Larry Summers directed while he adminstered "stress tests" on them? Last month, a little-known company where Summers served on the board of directors
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Reported by:
Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
REMEMBER NUECES! The next opportunity to stand against corruption is at hand.
05-30-2009
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Dennis Rodenbeck
Nueces County has become a focus of the corruption that has infiltrated our government down to the local level. We all see it and want to RIGHT the wrong of it. This is a great place for us all to make a stand.
We have the evidence for the case and it is blatant. We had to fight in court to achieve information that is by law 'public' (precinct minutes), and won that.
We are standing FOR THE PROCESS OF THE RULE OF LAW!
We have done a great deal of work for our rights as well as yours and are standing tall on the front lines for your liberty as well as ours.
It's fun waving signs and talking ideology, but this is where the battle has the smell of gun smoke and we need a few shoulders to stand with us right now.
Win or lose in the short term, the effort to stand up for the rule of law always Wins as it exposes corruption and shines a light of truth. Violating peoples rights at this level is the ultimate degradation of our Constitution.
The website will be
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Reported by:
Jack Spratt
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News Link • Military
US lab debuts super laser
05-30-2009
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) " A US weapons lab on Friday pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star.
The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power.
"We have invented the world's largest laser system," actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said during a dedication ceremony attended by thousands including state and national officials.
"We can create the stars right here on earth. And I can see already my friends in Hollywood being very upset that their stuff that they show on the big screen is obsolete. We have the real stuff right here."
NIF is touted as the world's highest-energy laser system. It is located inside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about an hour's drive from San Francisco.
Equipment connected to a house-sized sph
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Police State
Audio Proof Now Released- That Arrest of Freedom Fighter Radio Was Over A Upside Down Flag
05-30-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
The crime the display of the flag Union Down (upside down). His arrest was by 6 police vehicles and 12 officers. and resulted in his detention for close to 10 hours.In the state of Georgia.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Police State
Oklahoma Cops Attack Paramedic Enroute To Hospital
05-30-2009
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infowars
It does not take much to make cops in America “mad” these days, as numerous videos posted on the web reveal. Not displaying the required degree of deference to police can result in violence and even death.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Internet
Obama’s new war doctrine: ‘Cyber dominance’
05-30-2009
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RawStory.com
The precise details of US cyber military power remain secret, but it includes technology capable of penetrating and jamming networks, including the classified Suter airborne system, analysts say
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Mish: Click It or Ticket Insanity; 10% of Texans Have Arrest Warrants
05-30-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
A couple of weeks ago, the local paper printed names of El Pasoans with outstanding arrest warrants. 78,000 El Pasoans made the paper! What’s going on here?
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Sandusky Man Arrested for Mowing Grass in City Park
05-30-2009
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Fox8.com
Hamilton was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. A police report obtained by Fox 8 shows one of the officers measured the grass, which was in fact more than a foot high. City crews finished cutting the grass there later on Thursday.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Federal Reserve
CFR: The End of National Currency
05-30-2009
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foreignaffairs.com/
Global financial instability has sparked a surge in "monetary nationalism" -- the idea that countries must make and control their own currencies. But globalization and monetary nationalism are a dangerous combination, a cause of financial crises...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Technology: Software
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
05-30-2009
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Washington Post
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox's handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the "uninstall" button on the extension.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Police State
Search Engine Gives Access to Crime Records
05-27-2009
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Officer.com
Several police chiefs, county sheriffs and district attorneys in Colorado say the new CopLink search engine will revolutionize crime fighting the same way fingerprints did 100 years ago, or that DNA did 20 years ago.
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Reported by:
Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government
America's Freest States
05-30-2009
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RealClearPolitics
From indelibly American quotations like "Give me liberty or give me death" to the iconic pairing of "liberty and justice" in the Pledge of Allegiance, there's no shortage of examples demonstrating that Americans have historically placed a high value on the concept of freedom.
But in a country as large and diverse as the United States, the concept of liberty is sure to have different definitions for different people. More complicating still is the fact that, beyond the overarching liberties defined by the Constitution, individual states have their own legislation to address individual freedoms that aren't explicitly covered in federal doctrine.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Jekyll Island May 2009
Jekyll Island 2009
05-30-2009
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The Jekyll Island Project - Amanda Moore
When I say, that the trip to Jekyll Island was most awesome, I mean to impart emphasis on the word AWE.... Not for the elite who came before us, but for the men and women who showed the courage to stand together and be counted among the patriots of today.
Bob Schulz and “We The People Foundation”, invited G. Edward Griffin and sixty of the most honored and revered men and women in the patriot movement to experience this most inspiring gathering and historical adventure. Many people I spoke with during the invitation process were delighted to have been invited and saw the value in participating in this event. “It is long over due’ said Bernadine Smith, of the Second Amendment Committee. It will take unification and collaboration from all fronts, to achieve the necessary momentum and prevent the complete and total collapse of this nation, momentum necessary to stop the fast tract to Communism and regain our stronghold on freedom.
In 1910, men of means, despotic in nature, took the
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Ernest Hancock
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Feature Article • Government
How a Bill Becomes Law
Thomas Costanzo
2009 Seattle Conference - afternoon session on "How a Bill Becomes Law" with State Representatives Cary Condotta (R-12th District, Wenatchee) and Matt Shea (R-4th District, Mead).
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News Link • Steven Anderson - Checkpoint Arrest
Preacher Says he Was Beaten and Tortured by Arizona DPS & Border Patrol Agents
05-30-2009
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www.salem-news.com
The April 14th 2009 Border Patrol and Arizona police beating of a Baptist Minister named Steven Anderson at a border checkpoint, may stand out as one of the most disgraceful recent examples of police brutality and official breech of authority.
The supposedly trustworthy state and federal agents appear to have made a game out of how badly they could beat and physically damage and humiliate a person, and while the man's cameras remain confiscated, it was recorded on tape.
There are those stories that sometimes are just so grating, so wrong, that they are like an abomination. As stories of torture at the hands of Americans grab the headlines, we are reminded that abuse of power is the ultimate betrayal of a person's character, and it defines the conduct of an agency.
The frenzy to increase border scrutiny near Mexico seems to have tensions unusually high, and perhaps that factors in as one of the reasons this man of God was so completely and ruthlessly beaten and degraded
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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Feature Article • Activism
Liberty Rider on his way across USA, presently in PA.
Found Zero
Michael Maresco is known as the Liberty Rider for riding cross-country in support of Ron Paul during the campaigns. You have to keep updated on the guy because he moves right along. Many of us know Michael for his many other activities in support of the movement. Him and his brother were great at R3VOlUTION March last year. The guy is everywhere and into everything, a true national activist.
He set out from the Statue Of Liberty on Memorial day and he's headed straight West.
Here's a YoutTube of the beginning of the ride. Watch for the Sheriff's endorsement at 5:37 into the clip.
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