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Date Sent: 2009-06-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, June 2, 2009 PM edition |
Mysterious 'chip' is CIA's latest weapon against al-Qaida targets in Pakistan' -- GM sells Hummer
Obama's support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law - by Glenn Greenwald -- U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers
-- Congress's Afterthought, Wall Street's Trillion Dollars -- The Costs
of Carbon Legislation -- Consumer Sovereignty vs. Government
Sovereignty - by Jacob Hornberger -- Peter Navarro On The China Problem: Geithner's Humiliation -- Foreclosures: No End in Sight -- Dollar Declines as Slump Prompts Nations to Mull Alternative -- Housing Prices Fall WorldWide -- US firm says handheld puke ray gun is ready to go -- North Korea's Kim moves to anoint youngest son as heir -- Are Your Papers in Order? - by Thomas Knapp -- CDC Vaccine Adviser Pockets $29 Million Promoting Vaccines -- Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone' -- FCC: America’s New Speech Police -- New York Senator Gillibrand Supports New 9/11 Investigation -- Austin Grandmother Tasered at Traffic Stop -- Republican Senators Neuter Federal Reserve Transparency Bill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mysterious 'chip' is CIA's latest weapon against al-Qaida targets hiding in Pakistan'
06-02-2009
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The Guardian
The CIA is equipping Pakistani tribesmen with secret electronic transmitters to help target and kill al-Qaida leaders in the north-western tribal belt, in a tactic that could aid Pakistan's army as it takes the battle against extremism to the Taliban heartland.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hummer Update: GM sells Hummer to Chinese machine maker
06-02-2009
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marketwatch.com/
General Motors Corp. has sold its Hummer brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. Ltd., according to a report Tuesday in the New York Times. The report cited a person familiar with the Chinese government approval process.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Health Care Reform or Health Care Freedom? (audio)
06-02-2009
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WTAN Radio
Christine Smith discusses health care reform on
WTAN Radio/Freedom Works! Radio Show (16 minutes in length)
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Christine -
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News Link • Internet
U.S. Army servers breached by Turkish hackers
06-02-2009
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ZDNet
Hackers based in Turkey penetrated two US army web servers and redirected traffic from those websites to other pages, including one with anti-American and anti-Israeli messages.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Obama's support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law
06-02-2009
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
Obviously anticipating the Government is likely to lose in court again, Obama wants Congress to change FOIA by retroactively narrowing its disclosure requirements, prevent a legal ruling by the courts, and vest himself with brand new secrecy powers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
The Costs of Carbon Legislation
06-02-2009
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Mises Institute
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has challenged critics of the government's intentions to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, and he has even specifically endorsed the pending Waxman-Markey bill which includes a "cap-and-trade" program. According to Krugman, the costs of such legislation are no big deal, and in exchange we avert catastrophe. So why all the criticism?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Congress's Afterthought, Wall Street's Trillion Dollars
06-02-2009
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Washington Post
On the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the US Senate voted to vastly expand the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve. [kinda like creating it] Almost no one noticed. The critical language was contained in a single, inscrutable sentence, and the only public explanation was offered during a final debate that began with a reminder that senators had airplanes to catch. Yet, in removing a long-standing prohibition on loans that supported financial speculation, the provision effectively allowed the Fed for the first time to lend money to Wall Street during a crisis.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Pending Home Sales: Watch The Birdie!
06-02-2009
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Market-ticker.denninger.net
If the pending buyers did not lock rates, they are about to come to the closing table and find out that they cannot qualify any more with the more than one percent increase in rates (from ~4.75% to ~5.75%) over the last week.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
American Resistance to Tyranny! - Video
06-02-2009
Revolution is a beast that lives deep within our souls. a beast that is the essence of human love. Born from the molds of truth,reason, and justice.If the beast is not awakened the destruction of humanity is inevitable.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Property Rights
Consumer Sovereignty vs. Government Sovereignty
06-02-2009
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FFF / Jacob Hornberger
Now that GM is owned by selfless federal officials, not those greedy, profit-seeking capitalists, the company will be an enormous success and become the hope and inspiration for socialists everywhere.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Peter Navarro On The China Problem: Geithner's Humiliation
06-02-2009
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Zerohedge.blogspot.com/
UC Irvine professor Peter Navarro brings some relevant insight on why the Chinese problem is much more than the simplified question of whether or not they will keep buying Treasuries. Also, Chinese students laughing in Geithner's face is always refreshing
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
General Motors says a 'serious' buyer has emerged for Hummer
06-02-2009
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guardian.co.uk/business/
The company acquiring the business has asked for its identity to remain under wraps. But GM's chief executive, Fritz Henderson, described it as a "serious buyer".
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Print
Freedom Communications Says CEO Moving to Playboy Enterprises
06-02-2009
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Business Wire
Freedom Communications, Inc. announced today that Scott Flanders, its president and chief executive officer since January 2006, has resigned to take the CEO post at Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Xbox 360 Project Natal: Full-Body Motion Control One-Ups the Wii
06-02-2009
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Gizmodo
Microsoft unveiled its newest control scheme today: full-body motion control that doesn't require a controller of any kind called Project Natal. Forgive my excitement, but on first glance this thing looks amazing. Nintendo should watch out.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Dollar Declines as Slump Prompts Nations to Mull Alternative
06-02-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may discuss his proposal to create a new world currency when he meets counterparts from Brazil, India and China this month. Medvedev first proposed seeking alternatives to the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency in March.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosures: No End in Sight
06-02-2009
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NYtimes.com/
But overly onerous payments are only part of the problem. For 15.4 million “underwater” borrowers " those who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth " a lack of home equity puts them at risk of default
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
US firm says handheld puke ray gun is ready to go
06-02-2009
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theregister.co.uk/
These non-lethal weapons have the ability to control the threat at ranges of 1 meter to 2400 meters (model dependent). The Dazer Laser™ - Light Fighting Technologies - emit a green “eye safe” laser beam, that is shaped into approximately a 1 foot to 8 foot Dazer Zone™
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Housing Prices Fall WorldWide
06-02-2009
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globalpropertyguide.com/
Dubai’s house prices dropped 35% over a year earlier, and 42% over a quarter earlier. Dubai’s economy is closely tied to the global market. As uncertainties piled up, demand for properties collapsed. Many developers have delayed or postponed construction of projects.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
North Korea's Kim moves to anoint youngest son as heir
06-02-2009
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Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has signaled the anointment of his youngest son as heir to the ruling family dynasty as the rival Koreas bolstered their militaries along a disputed sea border on Tuesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Agriculture
Press Release: Genetically Engineered Wheat Rejected Globally
06-02-2009
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Farm Wars
Farmers, consumers and civil society organisations in Australia, Canada and the U.S. have released a joint statement to stop the commercialisation of genetically engineered wheat.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • World News
CDC Vaccine Advisor Pockets $29 Million Promoting Vaccines
06-02-2009
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Natural News
Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received at least $29 million from his share of royalties for Merck’s Rotateq vaccine after using his position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that childhood vaccination with the vaccine became compulsory.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Property Rights
Are Your Papers in Order?
06-02-2009
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C4SS / Thomas Knapp
[Borders] are created to observe and control your movements, to milk your bank accounts, and to psychologically reinforce the claim that you are, for all practical purposes, the property of “your” government.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Military
Suspect pleads not guilty in soldier's death
06-02-2009
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AP
A Muslim man accused of killing a soldier in a "political and religious" attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge.
Abdulhakim Muhammad was ordered held without bail at a hearing in Little Rock.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marriage
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
06-02-2009
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AP
"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish." He supports gays being able to marry, but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
USA's new scarlet letter, Domestic Terrorist! Are you one? Take the fun quiz and find out!
06-01-2009
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www.LCLReport.com
How easy is it for you,your family and friends to now be labeled a domestic terrorist? Take the fun quiz and find out if your now a enemy of the state. What can you do if you are labeled as one. Can you now be jailed forever without even a trail? We answer all these questions and also get the opinion from the fellows from www.Freetalklive.com.
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Wings Aloft
06-02-2009
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arclein
A new study says that within three years jumbo jet"makers could be testing a new type of wing that reduces midair drag and cuts fuel costs by an estimated 20 percent. The wing would do this using small, built in jets that redirect air around the wing during flight.
"This has come as a bit of a surprise to all of us in the aerodynamics community," Duncan Lockerby, an associate professor of fluid-solid mechanics at the University of Warwick in the U.K. and head of the research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and aircraft maker Airbus, said in a statement. "It was discovered, essentially, by waggling a piece of wing from side to side in a wind tunnel."
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robert klein
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper
04/27/2009
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By Stanislav Mishin, Pravda.Ru
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Free Speech
FCC: America’s New Speech Police
6/01/09
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Big Hollywodd
I find it incredible in America that a regulatory agency thinks it has jurisdiction to probe an independent business. Oh, but I forget about Chrysler, GM, and our banking system. Foolish me. What the Federal Communications Commission is doing is outlandish and smacks of tyranny in the making....
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
WeAreChange: New York Senator Gillibrand Supports New 9/11 Investigation
6/01/09
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Prison Planet
This video was premiered on our new live video show WeAreChange speaks with Senator Gillibrand...
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • World News
Student carrying explosive device arrested at Oregon University festival
06-02-2009
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BNO News
A 19-year-old Oregon State University sophomore student was arrested by Corvallis police on Saturday night when officers found a small homemade improvised explosive device in his backpack,
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Leads Nation to Bond Default Abyss: Kevin Hassett
06-02-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Maybe the state borrowed money from China for two years back in 2007 and now has to borrow again to give the Chinese their money back. What happens if, seeing the catastrophic budget situation, lenders decide to shun California altogether?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Austin Grandmother Tasered at Traffic Stop
6/01/09
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Infowars
A 72-year-old woman is pulled over for speeding, then tasered and sent to jail. Kathryn Winkfein says she drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping. But on a Monday afternoon, a Travis County Constable deputy pulled her over, on her way back to Granite Schoals. Video:
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Republican Senators Neuter Federal Reserve Transparency Bill
06-01-2009
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lp.org/
A Senate audit bill that is unrelated to HR 1207 titled “HC-45” was introduced to audit the Fed and was promptly amended to limit the scope. It appears now that a so-called limited government Republican by the name of Richard Shelby did the watering down...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Cindy Sheehan will speak at Changing Hands Bookstore
06-01-2009
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www.meetup.com
Cindy will speak about her new book, Myth America, Friday, June 5th, 7pm
6428 S. McClintock, Tempe AZ
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Donna Hancock
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