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Date Sent: 2009-10-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for October 3, 2009 Saturday edition |
450 Mayors Ask Obama To Adopt Broad Gun Reform -- BLS Overrepresented Payroll Data by 15%
Home Loans Brokered by Nonprofits Helped Fuel the Housing Crisis -- Three U.S. Banks Close, Bringing Failure Toll This Year to 98 -- Fed Draws Court's Eyes in Lehman Bankruptcy -- Senate Finance Dem: Health Care Bill Text Is 'Gibberish Incomprehensible w/video -- Obama Admin May Impose Cap and Trade Even if It Fails in the Senate -- Generous Pay for New Freddie Mac CFO -- White House Trip To Copenhagen: $3 Million Dollars -- Even Europe Knows Tax Cuts Work -- Commodities: Gold, Oil and the Dollar -- It's Obama's War Now -- The Failure of Obama's Economic Forecasters -- Bill Gross: US policy makers want a weak dollar -- Woman cited for peeing on police station
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News Link • Gun Rights
450 Mayors Petition Obama To Adopt Broad Gun Reform
10-02-2009
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Washington Post
A new report from a national coalition of mayors urges President Obama to adopt dozens of reforms to help curb gun violence, including steps to crack down on problems at gun shows and the creation of a federal interstate firearms trafficking unit.
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News Link • Government
BLS Discloses It Has Overrepresented Payroll Data By 824,000 Or 15%
10-02-2009
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Zero Hedge
A part of today's BLS announcement that has not received much attention is the BLS' own disclosure that it "may" have lost an additional 824,000 jobs in LTM period ended March 2009, in addition to the already disclosed 4.8 million job losses. From th
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
U.N. Panel Defers Vote On Gaza Report
10-02-2009
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Washington Post
Palestinian officials dropped their support for a scheduled vote on the report after intense lobbying from the Obama administration, which argued that action on the study would "backfire" by driving Israel away from possible peace talks and strengthe
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Anti-War Resister Lt. Watada discharged
10-02-2009
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News Tribune
The Army discharged Lt. Ehren Watada, writing the final chapter on the case of the most prominent military officer to refuse a deployment to Iraq. Watada, who had refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006 because he believed the war was illegal, finished out
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News Link • Food
When heated, high-fructose corn syrup can be dangerous
10-02-2009
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RD Magazine
Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears in the current issue of ACS' bi-weekly J
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News Link • World News
Leader Says Somalia's Plight Is Urgent
10-02-2009
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Washington Post
The president of war-torn Somalia said Friday that he urgently needs help to beat back an insurgency linked to al-Qaeda, adding that he has received only a fraction of the $200 million pledged at a U.N.-sponsored donors conference last spring to supp
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News Link • Government
Drop Moody’s Into the Volcano Why Wall Street's big ratings agencies should go the way of Arthur
10-02-2009
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Newsweek
One of the most distressing things about the current financial scandal is that there has been no similar reckoning against the firms that were supposed to be watching the system for the investment public.
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News Link • Humor
Thank goodness! UF has a plan for zombie invasions
10-02-2009
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Gainesville.com
Forget swine flu: The University of Florida's latest plan of attack concerns the off chance its employees become flesh-eating zombies.A UF manager posted a plan to deal with zombies on the school's Web site
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Three U.S. Banks Close, Bringing Failure Toll This Year to 98
10-02-2009
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Bloomberg
Banks in Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado were shut by regulators, bringing this year’s toll of U.S. failures to 98 amid the worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Democrats Weigh Extending Key Parts of Stimulus
10-02-2009
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WSJ
- White House officials and Democratic leaders in Congress on Friday said they were weighing extending key elements of the economic-stimulus program as the nation grapples with a deteriorating job market.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Draws Court's Eyes in Lehman Bankruptcy
10-02-2009
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WSJ
A court-appointed examiner investigating Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy has been exploring whether the Federal Reserve improperly cut in front of other creditors owed money in the $613 billion bankruptcy case, records show.
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News Link • Housing
Home Loans Brokered by Nonprofits Helped Fuel the Housing Crisis
10-02-2009
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Huffington Post Investigative
Billions of Dollars in Defaults on No-Money-Down Mortgages Weigh on FHA's Books
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News Link • Obama Administration
Was White House duped by Kremlin on timing of missile decision?
10-02-2009
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Digital Journal
Speculations grow that Russian diplomats, working on instructions from propaganda experts, tricked White House and State Department officials to get President Obama to make his missile shield announcement on September 17, a bad day for Poland.
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News Link • Government
Obama Admin May Impose Cap and Trade Even if It Fails in the Senate
10/02/09
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American Solutions
President Obama's energy "czar" Carol Browner hinted today that the EPA might implement a cap and trade plan for carbon dioxide emissions even if that type of plan fails in the Senate. In other words, if our elected leaders recognize that enough Amer
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News Link • Healthcare
OMG!!! Senate Finance Dem: Health Care Bill Text Is 'Gibberish Incomprehensible w/video
10/02/09
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CNS News
Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health care bill because it is “confusing” and that anyone who claims they a
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Obama Administration
ACORN tactics revealed in discovered documents
10/01/09
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In Through the Out Door
OKLAHOMA CITY " Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, said Wednesday he combed through documents from an abandoned local ACORN office because of reports of impropriety at other organization chapters. Oklahoma City-based news and investigative website
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Generous Pay for New Freddie Mac CFO
10-02-2009
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AP
The pay package given to Freddie Mac's new chief financial officer should have sent a message from Washington to corporate America about how executive compensation standards must change. Instead, it did just the opposite.
The government-controlled
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama’s Olympic failure will only add to doubts about his presidency
10-02-2009
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Times Online
There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Estimates For White House Trip To Copenhagen: $3 Million Dollars
10-02-2009
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Hot Air
And that doesn't include the aircraft used to fly the presidential limousines and Secret Service vehicles there as well.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Frontline - Obama's War
10-02-2009
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Daily Paul
As President Obama approaches a decision point on Afghanistan strategy and whether to increase troop levels, a 24-minute rough cut of the first act of Obama's War.
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News Link • Economy - International
Even Europe Knows Tax Cuts Work
10-02-2009
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http://papatodd.com
As economic numbers continue to plummet in the United States, some countries of the European Union have seen the errors of their ways and are now returning to free-market capitalist principles. The story starts with our own bad news…
WASHINGT
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News Link • Currencies
Commodities: Gold, Oil and the Dollar
10-02-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
In the long term, the commodities that will do well include gold, copper and crude oil, said Patrick Kerr, managing director at Amerifutures Commodities & Options, adding that pullbacks in the major commodity markets will be opportunities for investo
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bill Gross: US policy makers want a weak dollar, a way to get out from under a debt burden is to dev
10-02-2009
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Commodity Trader Alert
The Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates low which in turn weakens the dollar"but don’t expect any government officials to officially endorse a low currency.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Failure of Obama's Economic Forecasters
10-02-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
In January of this year, Christina Romer (now Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors) and Jared Bernstein (now Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden) put together a report
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News Link • Corruption
Memo Warned ACORN of Problems
10-02-2009
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New American
ACORN's attorney warned the group last year that it needed to get its fiscal and managerial houses in order, reports Matthew Vadum at The American Specator Blog. That warning came in the form of a 15-page memo, Vadum reports, that is the "Holy Grail
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate fears based on lies, Calgary told
Think-tank adviser says CO2 not a threat; Warming scie
10-02-2009
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Calgary Herald
CALGARY - As far as Lord Christopher Monckton is concerned, the debate on global warming is over as the science linking rising CO2 levels to calamitous environmental consequences is fatally flawed.
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News Link • Healthcare
Senate Democrats Screw States. Reid Screws Other Democrats (and Their States). Democrats Complain. R
10-02-2009
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CFIF
When we posted commentary this morning regarding the imposition of ginormous new Medicaid mandates on the states if “health care reform” passes, we briefly alluded to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an attempt to ease his dismal re-election cha
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News Link •
"Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock" October 2nd 2009
10-02-2009
Chad Harris from the "No Insurance Club" - http://www.noinsuranceclub.com/intro
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman cited for peeing on police station
10-02-2009
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Nashua Telegraph
Police arrested for indecent exposure a Boston woman for peeing on the police station after they refused to let her companion use the bathroom there, police report this morning. [You know you wanted to do this.]
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