ICN Informed Citizen News 10/04/09
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These pages list the most recent news stories reported by the readers and editors of Freedom's Phoenix:
Rangel rakes in cash from island rum scrum
• Washington TimesThe outcome of a legislative tussle over rum taxes between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands remains in doubt, but there is already one clear winner - the House's top tax writer, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who is pocketing camp
Dodd 'reforms' harm the prudent
• The Republican-AmericanWhat does Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd have against hard-working Americans who live up to the standards that made America great? For many years, Sen. Dodd pushed policies and mandates that forced lenders to write mortgages for people who because
Kebony Wood
• arcleinOne way out of this problem would be an environmentally friendly way of making softwood harder and more durable—something that a Norwegian company called Kebony has now achieved. It opened its first factory in January.
Graphene Sensing Tool
• arcleinResearchers at Columbia University in New York have made the first electrical-readout nanomechanical resonators made from graphene. The devices, which consist of vibrating sheets of graphene suspended over micron-sized trenches, could be used as high
Fed Should Release Borrowers’ Names, Bloomberg Says
• BloombergThe Federal Reserve should be forced to identify companies that received loans from the central bank because it can’t demonstrate that borrowers would be harmed by the disclosure, according to lawyers who won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
VIDEO: ABC's Diane Sawyer on Sibel Edmonds, FBI Whistleblower, First Amendment 'Heroine'
• BradBlog.comDiane Sawyer narrates the story of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds as she was awarded the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award.
LRADs: Another Step Toward a Police State
• John Birch SocietyThanks to Department of Homeland Security grants, local police departments around the country are ordering these devices, and they have already been used at some of last summer’s more spirited town-hall meetings on health care. According to the manuf
FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case
• BradBlog.comDetails panic inside the Bureau, executive effort to 'keep this whole thing quiet' when matter first came to light in 2002 - Further confirms FBI translator/whistleblower's allegations, credibility...
$485 BILLION of your tax dollars for SUBSIDIES for the insurance companies
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Kyle Bass October 2009 Investor Letter: Currencies are being Debased, likes Precious Metals
• Commodity Trader AlertBass was one of the few fund managers that foresaw the subprime debacle and made billions shorting it.he thrust of the analysis boils down to this: Currency Debasement.
The Largest U.S. Banks Have Repeatedly Gone Bankrupt Due to Wild Speculation; The Fed Blessed the Sp
• Washington's BlogIn other words, the nine biggest banks were all insolvent in the 1980s.Virtually all of the largest U.S. banks gamble and speculate and then all go bankrupt. The money center banks gambled in Latin America and lost. They went bankrupt.
A Look Ahead To the Great Resetting
• Washington PostTake a look around the corner. Millions of adjustable-rate mortgages are going to reset in the coming years, possibly to higher interest rates, creating the prospect of a new round of foreclosures.
Teens Arrested In Violent Craigslist Robberies
• CBSPhiladelphia Police arrested two teens in connections to a rash of robberies involving the popular classified Web site Craigslist.Theodore Graham and Anthony Owens, both 16, are facing numerous charges following three armed robberies.
FOIA Requests: It's So Easy!
• CameraFRAUDCameraFRAUD has taken the guesswork out of submitting a Freedom of Information Act to your favorite (or least favorite) government agency with the creation of this handy PDF form. Best of all, the only personal information you need to offer is you
Awaiting Monsanto's Results
• CNBCMonsanto is set to report earnings later this week, with Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital and the Fast Money team. All the spending is still digging a bigger hole & we are do nothing to fill it. Don't be fooled be rising stock prices.US economy sti
Ted Nugent "...shall not be infringed." (video)
• Youtube"...shall not be infringed."
Breaking: Louisiana Attorney General: Rathke Embezzled $5 Million From ACORN
• Big GovernmentAn internal review by the board of directors of the community organization ACORN determined that the amount allegedly embezzled from the community organization was $5 million, well more than the previously reported amount of nearly $1 million, accord
Boy repels burglars from home with shotgun
• eXaminer.comWe spoke yesterday of a successful gun defense use by a Texas five-year-old against an 800-pound alligator. Now we learn of a Michigan 13-year-old who repelled two burglars from his home with an Airsoft pistol backed up with a 20-gauge shotgun.
At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.
• IMRAThe Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Counci
Family Tried to Sell Snatched Tenn. Baby
• APA Tennessee newborn kidnapped in a knife attack on his 30-year old mother was re-kidnapped by the state with his 3 siblings after secret allegations arose that a family member tried to the sell the infant.
Dad Abducted Son Over ADHD Meds (VIDEO)
• KPHO TV5James Kaiser says he abducted his son in the spring because he didn't want to give the boy medication for ADHD.
Court won't block Catholic priest sex abuse papers release
• UPIThe U.S. Supreme Court refused to keep court documents on sex abuse cases involving Connecticut Catholic clergy sealed temporarily. The diocese has been struggling for years to keep the documents sealed, and the request to
Judge's order to release Kuwaiti detainee puts Obama in a bind
• McClatchy NewsA year ago, an Air Force prosecutor swore out charges of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist organization against Fouad al Rabia, a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aviation engineer who was seized in Afghanistan 8 years ago.
White House: Leaving Afghanistan not an option
• APWhite House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that walking away isn't a viable option to deal with a war that is about to enter its ninth year. "I don't think we have the option to leave. That's quite clear," Gibbs said.
Obama's permanent depression
• Asia Times OnlineObama inherited a crisis, to be sure, but he has made it much worse. President Barack Obama may be remembered for permanent depression, the way that Leon Trotsky's name is linked with permanent revolution. Fiscal stimulus combined with near-zero inte
The Demise of the Dollar
• IndependentIn the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Russia, Japan, and France - to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese Yen and
The demise of the dollar
• The IndependentIn a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
Jefferson: The 51st State
• http://www.jeffersonstate.com/When I went to Medford, OR last year, the local NPR affiliate identified themselves as Jefferson Public Radio. I asked my friend what that was all about and she said that it was from the mythical State Of Jefferson. There was a libertarian-minded s
Rangel Ducks, Runs From Ethics Questions
• NY Daily NewsRep. Charlie Rangel ducked reporters’ questions about his ethics troubles and heard a nasty catcall from a passerby during a Manhattan news conference this afternoon.
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