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Date Sent: 2009-09-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, September 28, 2009 AM edition |
US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed -- Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts
Congress seeks to ban texting while driving -- U.S. Is Seeking Tougher Sanctions Against Iran -- Candidate Raffles Off AK-47 to Launch Campaign -- U.S., Allies Vow Support for Karzai -- Ron Paul's speech with Michele Bachman -- Rampant Debt Monetization Means U.S. Financial System is Doomed -- Social Security In Deficit -- Treasurer: Arizona is broke -- Michigan's Babysitting Gestapo -- Swiss arrest Polanski on US request in sex case -- Military and Riot Thugs Detain, Dehumanize and TORTURE American Citizens -- Americans roll with growing pot culture
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News Link • Obama Administration
US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran's Qom site discovered
09-27-2009
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Debkafuke
The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bombs (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding
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News Link • Healthcare
Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts
09-27-2009
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Times Online
British victims of the credit crunch are offering to sell their kidneys for 25,000 pounds(appro $40,000) or more to help pay debts, an investigation by the Sunday Times has revealed. At least a dozen adverts have appeared on the internet offering
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Photojournalist sues feds after raid on home
09-27-2009
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Photography is not a Crime
Federal agents raided the home of a photojournalist last year, seizing cameras, memory cards, a digital voice recorder, computer hardware and digital storage devices. The photojournalist, Laura Sennett, had photographed people protesting an Internati
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Vaccine Nation (full film)
8/02/09
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The Prime Meridian
From the award-winning director of The Drugging of our Children, Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own and AIDS Inc. - comes the latest film of critical social importance: Vaccine Nation.
For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children s
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Transportation
Congress seeks to ban texting while driving
09-27-2009
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NY Times
“We think that’s overkill,” Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, said of a federal bill that would force states to ban texting while driving if they want to keep receiving federal highway money.
The legislation will be
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
U.S. Is Seeking Tougher Sanctions Against Iran
09-27-2009
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NY Times
The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that could include a cutoff of investments to the country’s oil-and-gas industry and restrictions on many more Iranian ba
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
2 Brothers' Grim Tale Of Loyalty And Limbo
09-27-2009
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Washington Post
Bahtiyar Mahnut, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, learned a few weeks ago that the Pacific island nation of Palau had invited him to settle there. He wishes to remain a prisoner so he can look after his older brother, a fello
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Candidate Raffles Off AK-47 to Launch Campaign
9/25/09
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WLTX
A Greenville man plans to launch his political campaign for adjutant general Saturday by giving away an AK-47 assault rifle.
Dean Allen, 58, said he will give away the rifle in a free sweepstakes open to all. He said it's his way of celebrating the
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S., Allies Vow Support for Karzai
09-27-2009
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Washington Post
The United States and NATO countries fighting in Afghanistan have told President Hamid Karzai's government that they expect him to remain in office for another five-year term and will work with him on an expanded campaign to turn insurgent fighters a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs & Currency Swaps
09-27-2009
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Goldman Sachs 666 (HT Liberty Pulse)
I would say something smells fishy here but the truth is it smells like 6 tons of dead fish washed up on the beach.
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News Link • Currencies
Reserve Currency in the Making: China Hong Kong Bond Sale May Garner ‘Huge’ Demand, BoCom Says
09-27-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
China’s first sale of yuan bonds in Hong Kong may attract “huge” demand with an interest rate twice as high as that on savings accounts and the prospect of currency gains, Bank of Communications Ltd. said.
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News Link • Currencies
HK’s Bright International to Buy Gold Mines for $956 Million, to Tap Rising Prices
09-27-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
Lighting manufacturer Bright International said it would buy gold mines in China for a total of HK$7.41 billion ($956 million) to tap rising prices of the precious metal.
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News Link • World News
Germany Has Voted
Merkel Wins German Election, Has Majority for Center-Right Government
09-27-2009
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Spiegel
German voters re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday and allowed her to ditch the center-left Social Democrats from her government and form a coalition with her preferred partner, the pro-business Free Democratic Party, instead, according to r
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News Link • New World Order
Thinking global brings a world of problems
09-27-2009
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Telegraph
What nobody seems to be saying is that it is the proper business of democratically elected governments to protect and defend the needs and wishes of their own people. This is nothing less than the whole 18th-century project of modern democracy with w
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Rampant Debt Monetization Means U.S. Financial System is Doomed
09-27-2009
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Oracle
Gross debt issuance will reach $7 trillion when the current fiscal year ends this month, Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Karthik Ramanathan, said on Wednesday.
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News Link • Healthcare
A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
09-27-2009
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Examiner
The Baucus plan would not only fail to address what's wrong with the American health system; it would compound the country's economic woes by strapping individuals and businesses with new taxes and costs.
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Under pressure for nukes, Iran test fires missiles
09-27-2009
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Yahoo
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles Sunday in drills meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country.
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News Link • Humor
SAVE ME, OBAMA/Parody of The Beatles "Lady Madonna"
09-27-2009
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You Tube
With the way the United States Economy is, we at wabr6 are getting on edge.. Here is the wabr6 message to President Obama.. Lyrics by M. Spaff Sumsion, Song performed by Robert Lund. Christmas wish...
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News Link • Social Security
Social Security In Deficit, Obama Applauded Reform's Demise in 2006
09-27-2009
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Newsbusters
"Early Retirements Strain Social Security System."
Strain? How about calling a spade a spade and letting people know up front that Social Security is about to run a deficit?
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Treasurer: Arizona is broke
09-27-2009
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Lake Powell Chronicle
State treasurer Dean Martin held an informal town hall meeting in Page on Saturday evening, but the news was not very cheerful as he told a small audience at City Hall that the state of Arizona is broke. Actually, it’s more than broke; it’s in debt.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Economy is a Lie, Too
Even the Part-Time Jobs are Disappearing
09-27-2009
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Baltimore Chronicle
Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with one million school children now homeless, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announces
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News Link • New World Order
We have to trash the dollar for the New World Order currency plans of the G-20
09-27-2009
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CNBC
G20 purpose is to change monetary policy with SDR's as the New World Order Currency.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Whoops! The AP Publishes Internal Notes About Roman Polanski Arrest As News Story
09-27-2009
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The Business Insider
The Associated Press appears to have published internal communications instead of news copy in a story called "Swiss arrest Polanski on US request in sex case."
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News Link • Media: Print
The New York Times Business Section Goes To War Against Paul Krugman Over Banker Pay
09-27-2009
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The Business Insider
The role of executive compensation in our financial crisis might seem an unlikely subject to spark a minor civil war between the editors and columnists of the New York Times. But that's exactly what seems to be happening.
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News Link • Depression
Another Reason We Won't Have A V-Shaped Recovery: Jobs
09-27-2009
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The Business Insider
To get back to 5% unemployment in five years, we'd have to create 250,000 jobs a month. That's never happened before.
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News Link • Police State
Michigan's Babysitting Gestapo
09-27-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Swiss arrest Polanski on US request in sex case
09-27-2009
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news.yahoo.com
ZURICH " Director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police as he flew in for the Zurich Film Festival and faces possible extradition to the United States for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, authorities said Sunday.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets - It's About Time!
09-27-2009
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Surviving the Middle Class Crash
The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Police State
Military and Riot Thugs Detain, Dehumanize and TORTURE American Citizens
09-27-2009
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http://www.infowars.com/military-and-riot-thugs-de
Luke Rudowski received multiple battens to his back and legs as the jackals descended on him with force, even though he had made it clear to all of them he wished them no violence. For his peaceful efforts Luke and Lee from We Are Change were sep
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Andrew Strmic
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News Link • Constitution
The States Can Stop Obama - by Sheriff Richard Mack
09-27-2009
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By Sheriff Richard Mack (Ret.)
The last of these basic foundational principles was the one to protect the power, sovereignty, and the autonomy of the States; the Tenth Amendment. This amendment and law underscores the entire purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forb
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Israel’s Futile Arrest of BDS Activist Mohammad Othman
09-27-2009
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KABOBfest
The real reason [for Othman's arrest] must be his prominent role in the international movements in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, one of the only fronts of Palestinian strategy Israel actually fears.
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Brock Lorber
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