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Date Sent: 2009-10-24
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, October 23, 2009 PM edition |
Health Bill Fails Senate Test Vote 47 - 53 -- NATO moves toward more troops for Afghan war
Barack Obama's policy on brink of collapse as Tehran does last-minute nuclear stall -- Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves -- Max Keiser: Kiss The Dollar Goodbye!! -- Ron Paul Exposes The Federal Reserve And Explains Why It Doesn't Want To Be Audited -- White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview -- Suicide bomber strikes suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan -- Judge dismisses 'Adult Services' Craigslist Ads suit
-- Michigan Considers Partial Repeal of Victim Disarmament Laws -- FBI
looks at bribery allegations against Alaska Rep. Young -- Air Force's
Secretive Space Plane Nears Maiden Voyage -- Freddie Mac Annualized Defaults Hit Record High At 7.3%, Even As Lending Increases --
Home-Buyer Tax Credit Scrutinized -- Man pleads guilty to DWI in
motorized La-Z-Boy -- U.S. cuts pay at bailed out firms, BofA hits back
-- Navy's newest warships top out at more than 50 mph -- AARP's Tradition of Betrayal - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Obama Administration
Health Bill Fails Senate Test Vote 47 - 53
10-23-2009
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Woodward Report
You have to read all the way to page A-25 in today’s New York Times to learn about it, but the Senate took its first floor vote on Obamacare yesterday and the White House lost. Big. The NYT reports: “Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legi
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO moves toward more troops for Afghan war
10-23-2009
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AP
Gates was "heartened" by allies' commitment to the 8-year-old war as the Obama administration mulls ordering tens of thousands more U.S. troops to the fight. Citing a long-term commitment by NATO partners to remain in Afghanistan until the conflict i
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Possible Credit Dislocation: Be Warned
10-23-2009
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The Market Ticker
I have reason to suspect that the "monetary transmission mechanism" is full of rocks (again), and we are about to have another instance of what could colloquially be called "fun." (Yes, that's sarcasm.)Here's what we know and what I can deduce from i
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News Link • Government
Citizenship Question Draws Fire
10-23-2009
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Newsmax
A coalition of black, Latino and Asian lawmakers on Thursday expressed opposition to a proposal that would require next year's census forms to ask about the status of a person's citizenship.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama's policy on brink of collapse as Tehran does last-minute nuclear stall
10-23-2009
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Times Online
President Obama’s policy of diplomatic engagement with Iran is close to collapse as Tehran backtracks on a crucial deal aimed at cutting its stockpiles of nuclear fuel.
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News Link • Currencies
Russia May Sell 50 Tons of Gold in 2009
10-23-2009
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CNBC
Russia plans to sell as much as 50 tons of gold this year to help plug a budget deficit in the first major bullion sale by its precious metals repository since the fall of the Soviet Union, a high level source told Reuters.
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News Link • Obama Administration
American Healthcare Fascialism
10-23-2009
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Mises
Some time ago I invented the phrase "fascialism" to describe the American system of political economy. Fascialism means an economy is part fascist, part socialist. Economic fascism has nothing to do with dictatorship, militarism, or bizarre racial th
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Where Are the Vaccine Pied Pipers Leading Us?
10-23-2009
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Lew Rockwell (HT Liberty Pulse)
Wired.com, that Conde Nast online publication that caters to techy people, has published a wave of articles critical of those who oppose massive over-vaccination of the American population.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Killer Algae
10-24-2009
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arclein
Supervolcanoes and cosmic impacts get all the terrible glory for causing mass extinctions, but a new theory suggests lowly algae may be the killer behind the world's great species annihilations.
Today, just about anywhere there is water, there ca
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic CO2 Sequestration
10-24-2009
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arclein
The arctic could potentially alter the Earth's climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. The arctic now traps or absorbs up to 25 percent of this gas but climate change could alter that amount, according to a study p
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves
10-23-2009
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The Hill
The more the fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, sten
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow: Nothing Wrong with Off-the-Record Obama Visit, Since Bush Did It
10-23-2009
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Newsbusters
Throughout the previous administration, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann would nightly attack President George W. Bush and members of his administration and regularly bash some conservative personalities for being too cozy with Bush.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Max Keiser: Kiss The Dollar Goodbye!!
10-10-2009
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RevolutionaryPolitics.com
Max discloses the new coming currency system, elimination of dollar reserve standard, and why gold will continue to skyrocket.
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George Andonyan
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News Link • Government
Sheriff Arpaio's Office Is Only Law Enforcement Agency in U.S. Denied Authority to Enforce Immig
10-23-2009
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CNS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told CNSNews.com that after reviewing the Memorandum of Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states, the only agency to lose its auth
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News Link • Obama Administration
No Recovery. It’s a Cover up! Recession To Worsen Revolution To Follow
10-23-2009
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PakAlert Press HT Liberty Pulse
What 80 percent of economists call “Recovery” is a “Cover up”. Trillions in losses papered over with trillions of phantom dollars printed out of thin air and backed by nothing produce nothing except the mirage of recovery. The dollar’s dive and gold’
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Ron Paul Exposes The Federal Reserve And Explains Why It Doesn’t Want To Be Audited
10-23-2009
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Daily Paul
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Loses Bid to Exclude Fox News From Pay Czar Interview
10-23-2009
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Fox
The Obama administration on Thursday tried to make "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks decided that none of their repor
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News Link • Death
Taser tells police to avoid shooting at chest
10-23-2009
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Associated Press
PHOENIX " Stun-gun maker Taser International has started telling police agencies to avoid firing the devices at suspects' chests, explaining that there's an "extremely low" risk of ill effects on the heart and that doing so will make defending lawsui
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Refugees don't think Pakistan's anti-Taliban efforts are serious
10-23-2009
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McClatchy News
The Pakistani army's latest offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, has failed to convince residents of the frontier area that the state is finally determined to wipe out the Islamic extremists.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bernanke: Fed mulling bank capital surcharge
10-23-2009
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Reuters
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said regulators are considering a capital surcharge on large banks as one way to reduce the risk any one firm's problems could destabilize the financial system. Are also considering requiring a greater share of bank
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Suicide bomber strikes suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan
10-23-2009
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McClatchy News
A suspected nuclear weapons site in Pakistan was hit by a suicide bomb attack, raising fears about the security of the nuclear arsenal, while two other terrorist blasts made it another bloody day in the country's struggle against extremism.
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News Link • Internet
Judge dismisses 'Adult Services' Craigslist suit
10-23-2009
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AP
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at driving classified ads for prostitution off the Craigslist Web site. U.S. District Court Judge John Grady said not all postings on the Craigslist "Adult Services" section advertised prostitution and t
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News Link • Internet
Still No Internet or SMS Allowed in China's Muslim Region
10-23-2009
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IDG News
4 months after deadly ethnic riots in China's Muslim region led authorities to shut off the Internet there, local residents are still barred from sending text messages and getting online. The clampdown on telecommunication has cut residents off from
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michigan Considers Partial Repeal of Victim Disarmament Laws
10-23-2009
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http://nothirdsolution.com
The State of Michigan is mulling over a bill that would remove the statewide ban on concealed-carry on college campuses, being met with vocal opposition, of course!
Until the gun control advocates recognize that there are times in our lives when
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Cool New FREE On Line Game - United States of Earth
10-23-2009
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blueloriblogspot.com
The year is 2011. President Obama has just outlawed the private ownership of firearms, announced that the Constitution has been dissolved and revealed that the United States is going to be replaced by the North American Union, an amalgamation of th
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News Link • Corruption
Examiner Editorial: Uncovering the bull under the bailout
10-23-2009
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The Examiner
Congress put American taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion last year when it approved the massive bailout to paper over imprudent lending decisions of nine Wall Street giants: Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs
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News Link • Corruption
FBI looks at bribery allegations against Alaska Rep. Young
10-23-2009
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McClatchy News
An Alaska businessman admitted to giving gifts to Republican Rep. Don Young, the state's long-serving sole congressman, in a confession made public as part of an ongoing federal investigation into political corruption in the state.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Air Force's Secretive Space Plane Nears Maiden Voyage
10-23-2009
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Space
You would think that an unpiloted space plane built to rocket spaceward from Florida atop an Atlas booster, circle the planet for an extended time, then land on autopilot on a California runway would be big news. But for the U.S. Air Force X-37B proj
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Freddie Mac Annualized Defaults Hit Record High At 7.3%, Even As Lending Increases Once Again
10-23-2009
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Zero Hedge
With the US government now having taken over the functions of such pristine subprime lenders as New Century, with the provision that it not only is not checking borrowers' credit scores, income potential, or other "facts" that the mortgage lenders
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News Link •
CALLING ALL CHICAGOANS! CC 2009 Needs Your Help!
10-23-2009
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ME! Ed Vallejo
Do you live in the Chicago/St. Charles area? Do you have time to help promote this event? Can you help America right the many wrongs that surround us?
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News Link • Corruption
Home-Buyer Tax Credit Scrutinized
10-23-2009
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Time
Tens of thousands of people may have taken advantage of the first-time home buyer tax credit to defraud the government, an IRS watchdog office said Thursday, in testimony that could jeopardize efforts to extend the popular program.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Man pleads guilty to DWI in motorized La-Z-Boy
10-23-2009
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AP
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. The 62-year-old left a bar on his chair after drinking 8 or 9 beers. Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times the legal li
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. cuts pay at bailed out firms, BofA hits back
10-23-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. pay czar slashed compensation for top earners at 7 bailed-out companies for the final 2 months of the year, and was immediately slammed by the country's largest bank which claimed the cuts could send talent fleeing.
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News Link • Military
Navy's newest warships top out at more than 50 mph
10-23-2009
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AP
The Navy's need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.
Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 4
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