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Date Sent: 2010-06-29
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, June 28, 2010 PM edition |
Supremes UPHOLD Second Amendment Piecemeal -- 46 States Facing Greek-Like Budget Crisis
The Military Can Waste Money Too - by Ron Paul -- Court strikes down part of Sarbanes-Oxley law -- White House Preparing National Online 'Biometric' ID Plan -- Belgium church panel on sex abuse shuts after raid -- Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92 -- Jim Cramer Stock Outrage -- Paul Krugman Thinks We Are In A Depression -- White House Catastrophic Budget Projections: 1980 to 2085 -- RBS: Prepare for "monster" money printing by the Fed --
Competing Ideologies: G20 v. US Social Forum - by Stephen Lendman --
Kim's Rein of Terror -- Joint Chiefs chairman 'security threat of high
debt . . . impacts Military Purchases'
Tempe "Liberty on the Rocks" Tuesday 6PM
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supremes UPHOLD Second Amendment!!!
06/28/2010
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Gene Kernan; www.TheAmericanRepublic.com
In a blow to Chicago (and "14th Amendment citizenship is evil" proponents everywhere), Alito, joined in some parts by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas; in others with Roberts, Scalia and Kennedy, with Scalia, and Thomas concurring, fired an
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Gene Kernan
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
46 States Facing Greek-Like Budget Crisis
06-28-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Forty-six states face budget shortfalls that add up to $112 billion for the fiscal year ending next June, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington research institution. State spending is 12 percent of U.S. GDP.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
Supreme Court is Correct in Striking Down Chicago Gun Ban
06-28-2010
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Paul Levinson
Whatever we may think about guns, the Second Amendment needs to be respected as a part of the Constitution. It applies to states and localities through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Court strikes down part of Sarbanes-Oxley law
06-28-2010
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Reuters
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law to prevent fraud committed by companies like Enron and WorldCom, saying a board to police public companies' auditors violated the Constitution.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Oil Spill Will Bring More Pain To Troubled Florida Homeowners
06-28-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
On an aggregate basis, 81% of all loans in the state are ‘underwater’, and the average mark-to-market loan-to-value ratio of Florida loans is 138%. ‘Nearly 40% of all Florida
borrowers owe more than 150% of the value of their homes,’ said Slump.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Transportation
Tesla increases size of IPO by 20 percent
06-28-2010
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Reuters
Electric carmaker Tesla Motors raised the number of shares it will sell in its initial public offering by 20 percent, an early sign that investor interest in the startup is strong.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • New World Order
David Icke: 'And The Sea Shall Turn To Blood'...
06-28-2010
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Rense.com
The potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply cannot be overstated. It is far, far worse than is being admitted and what we are allowed to see is catastrophic enough.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Gun Rights
Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms
06-28-2010
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Washington Post
The court was considering a restrictive handgun law in Chicago and one of its suburbs that was similar to the District law that it ruled against in 2008. The 5 to 4 decision does not strike any other gun control measures currently in place, but it pr
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
White House seeks comment on trusted ID plan
06-28-2010
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Networked World
For the next 3 weeks the White House is seeking comment on a draft plan for establishing a trusted identity system online, with the goal of making Internet transactions more secure and convenient.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Activism
GREAT G-20 Photostream!
06-28-2010
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NationalPost via Rense.com THANKS!!!
SUPER pics - I could see us there doing this... : )
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Camera Fraud
L.A.'s red-light camera program exempted from Arizona boycott
06-28-2010
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LA Times
Los Angeles' red-light camera program was temporarily exempted Wednesday from the city's contracting boycott of Arizona prompted by that state's new immigration enforcement policy.
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Reported by:
Sheila Dean
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed In Panic: Public Catching On To The Scam
06-28-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
Whenever anyone has ever told me something was too complex, there was usually a scam around the corner, as indeed it is with the Fed. The Fed is, itself, a scam. The complex matter in which they carry on is done to obfuscate the scam.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
White House Preparing National Online 'Biometric' ID Plan
06-28-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
That path forward will hinge on a new draft of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, due to be released Friday for the first time to the public, for a three-week comment period. Formerly known as the National Strategy for...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
18 States Facing Brutal Austerity Cuts: Arizona Tops The List of Cutters
06-28-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This fiscal year will be a bloodbath for many states and Arizona tops the list of cutters. Arizona -- 35% Cuts FY2011 shortfall: $3.1 billion % of FY2010 budget: 35.3%
Previous cuts: $5.1 billion in '10; $3.7 billion in '09
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
James Howard Kunstler: Say What?
06-28-2010
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Kunstler.com
Earth to President Obama: there isn't going to be a next time. This time was enough to git 'er done. Wall Street - in particular the biggest "banks" - packaged up and sold enough swindles to unwind 2500 years of western civilization.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Belgium church panel on sex abuse shuts after raid
06-28-2010
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AP
A Catholic panel investigating clerical sex abuse in Belgium is shutting down to protest a police raid on its church offices. Belgian authorities betrayed the trust of nearly 500 victims who had made complaints over the past 2 months to the church pa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Death
Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92
06-28-2010
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AP
Robert C. Byrd , the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, a fiery orator and hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to his beloved West Virginia, died Monday. He was 92.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jim Cramer Stock Outrage
06-28-2010
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The Daily Beast
The stock guru's top pupil, baseball star Lenny Dykstra, was secretly paid to plug stocks on TheStreet.com and give access to Cramer, reveals Randall Lane in his new book, The Zeroes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Contractors, Government & Military
Blackwater plunged into controversy again
06-28-2010
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Jeff Stein, Washington Post
Even as CIA Director Leon Panetta gave the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater a clean bill of health on Sunday, the firm was plunged into a new controversy over its past dealings, this time in Sudan.
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Reported by:
Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Signs of The Apocalypse: Paul Krugman Thinks We Are In A Depression
06-28-2010
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NYtimes.com/
We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. But the cost " to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Has Lost It; Publishes Essay Bashing Bloggers
06-28-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Kartik Athreya has written the most idiotic "research" piece to come out of the Federal Reserve since 1913, and the Fed has written a lot of idiotic research since then - after all you don't destroy 98% of the dollar's purchasing power in 97 years...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Budget Projections: 1980 to 2085
06-28-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Here are the long-run budget projections from the White House's fiscal 2011 budget, which was released in August 2009. Note the catastrophic long-term deficit projection, and the static level of receipts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
RBS tells clients to prepare for "monster" money printing by the Federal Reserve
06-28-2010
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Telegraph.co.uk/
We cannot stress enough how strongly we believe that a cliff-edge may be around the corner, for the global banking system (particularly in Europe) and for the global economy. Think the unthinkable," he said in a note to investors.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Cancer Therapy Goes Viral
06-28-2010
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arclein
In a two-pronged attack, these viruses specifically target tumor cells while delivering a cargo of immune-boosting genes. In contrast, viruses that cause cancer, such as the human papillomavirus that is responsible for most cases of cervical cancer,
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Illuminating the Mysterious Placebo Effect
06-28-2010
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arclein
Much of this attention is a result of the kind of brain imaging Dr. Wager does, and he is a leading figure in the new generation of placebo researchers.
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robert klein
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News Link • TERRORISM
Kim's Rein of Terror
06-28-2010
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arclein
Yet, after 57 years of an uneasy armistice, if another war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, Seoul will be obliterated and millions will die.
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Perennial Grains Emerging
06-28-2010
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arclein
By contrast, annual grains can lose five times as much water as perennial crops and 35 times as much nitrate, a valuable plant nutrient that can migrate from fields to pollute drinking water and create “dead zones” in surface waters
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robert klein
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Food and Depopulation (Part 2 of 4)
06-28-2010
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Farm Wars
Monsanto’s Monopoly: A monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service that makes it possible to manipulate prices. This is accomplished through governmental regulations used to enforce the monopoly.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Afghanistan
CIA Director Panetta: ‘There May Be Less Than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan’
06-27-2010
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Glynnis MacNicol
This morning on This Week CIA director Leon Panetta told Jake Tapper that there were less than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Panetta said. “At most, we’re looking at 50 to 100, maybe less."
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Joint Chiefs chairman reiterates security threat of high debt - impacts Military Purchases!
06-24-2010
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Roxana Tiron, The Hill
Pentagon leaders, the military services and contractors must work together to cut bloat and unnecessary programs, the chairman of the JCOS said Thursday. .The goal is to find more savings within the defense budget without cutting the top-line number
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Leon Felkins
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