Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Daily News Links -- June 21, 2011
Daily News Links -- June 21, 2011
***City hopes 'homeless meters' will help feed, shelter homeless***
http://bit.ly/ka2OwM
***From Louboutins to combat boots: How a society girl left her glamorous life to become one of America's first women in Iraq***
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-2005698/Jane- Blair-Society-girl-leaves- Louboutins-1-Americas-women- Iraq.html#ixzz1PpPE9KoT
***British Marine killed by Taliban in Afghanistan leaves friends $160G to party in Las Vegas***
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ homepage/news/campaigns/our_ boys/3647074/Marine-killed-by- Taliban-leaves-100000-in-his- will-to-sendbr-32-of-his- mates-on-holiday.html# ixzz1PpMLdqBp
***My Friday flight home with a fallen soldier***
http://www.freerepublic.com/ focus/f-chat/2737144/posts
The Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing, Inflation, Free-Market Principles, Gold / Silver, Food Supply
Federal government to float $1 billion in new homeowner bailouts...
http://community.nasdaq.com/ News/2011-06/1-billion-in- homeowner-aid-offered.aspx? storyid=81588
--...interest-free federal "loans" offered to unemployed homeowners, "loans" may NOT have to be paid back...
http://www.boston.com/Boston/ businessupdates/2011/06/help- for-jobless-homeowners- arrives/ lo3uAgO77k6CL93p3y4sEO/index. html
Russia to lower U.S. debt holdings
http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB1000142405270230331000457639 3651050458930.html
("Asked if U.S. debt was as solid an investment now as it was 10 years ago, chief economic aide Mr. Dvorkovich said: "On an absolute basis, yes. On a relative basis, compared to other investments, of course not.")
--Medvedev says wants to see Obama re-elected
http://www.breitbart.com/ article.php?id=CNG. 183747070ebaeb0aaf1c700ebe1075 ce.b21&show_article=1
Citi says Greek debt may be contagious...
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/citi- says-greek-debt-may- contagious-104201806.html
--...country faces power outages due to austerity strike
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/ stories/E/EU_GREECE_FINANCIAL_ CRISIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME& TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011- 06-20-06-03-47
--Britain's chancellor George Osborne: England "won't bail out Greece again"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ finance/financialcrisis/ 8586519/Financial-markets- slide-over-Greek-bailout- delays.html
--Op-Ed: Why Greece will bring the euro down with it
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/ content/article/710871-why- greece-will-bring-euro-down-it
Survey: Most Americans unprepared for a personal financial emergency
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/are-you-prepared-for- a-financial-emergency-survey- says-most-americans-arent/
Do not expect to see gas prices below $3.00/gal. any time soon...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/ 43469708
Germany: Siemens says U.S. workers lack skills
http://www.cnbc.com/id/ 43459947
States look to Internet taxes to close budget gaps
http://apnews.myway.com/ article/20110619/D9NV8GJ80. html
--Five Lessons for Deficit Busters (good article)
http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB1000142405270230382310457639 1331356123692.html?mod= djemEditorialPage_h
("A recent study of successful deficit reductions found they averaged more than $5 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes.")
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar extends moratorium on uranium mining near Grand Canyon, likely to enact a 20-year ban on new claims...
http://blogs.forbes.com/ oshadavidson/2011/06/20/ interior-secy-salazar-extends- moratorium-on-uranium-mining- near-the-grand-canyon/
Big Government, Progressives & Radicals, Communism & Socialism, Redistribution Of Wealth, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Collective Salvation, Liberation Theology
******JOB-SCREENING AGENCY APPROVED BY FTC TO ARCHIVE EVERY FACEBOOK PROFILE******
http://www.allfacebook.com/ alert-job-screening-agency- archiving-all-facebook-2011-06
("The FTC decided Social Intelligence complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the same set of rules that keeps your bill-payment records on file with the consumer bureaus...")
--******FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, FLICKR, CRAIGSLIST INFORMATION YOU POST WILL BE STORED FOR SEVEN YEARS******
http://blogs.forbes.com/ kashmirhill/2011/06/20/now- your-embarrassingjob- threatening-facebook-photos- will-haunt-you-for-seven- years/
Survey: Are Americans becoming more Libertarian-minded?
http://www.theblaze.com/ stories/are-americas-becoming- more-libertarian-minded/
***Goldman caught manipulating Brent/WTI spread....penalty? $40,340.00***
http://www.zerohedge.com/ article/goldman-caught- manipulating-brentwti-spread- penalty-40340
Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies – A Time for Choosing
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/ 06/panettas-war-on-reagans- defense-policies-a-time-for- choosing/
--Panetta Report 4: Leon Panetta's Communist Friend, and the Chinese Spy
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/ 06/panetta-report-4-leon- panettas-communist-friend-and- the-chinese-spy/
What CommieCare looks like:
--U.K.: Woman, 26, died of DVT after NHS walk-in centre nurse 'diagnosed muscular pain using COMPUTER guide'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ health/article-2005801/ Rebecca-Cain-26-died-DVT-NHS- walk-nurse-diagnosed-muscular- pain.html#ixzz1PpOaTmN9
---U.K.: The Accountable Care Fiasco
http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB1000142405270230452080457634 3410729769144.html
("Even the models for health reform hate the new HHS rule -- the 429-page rule is a classic of top-down micromanagement.")Supreme Court rejects environmentalists' suit demanding power plant emissions cuts
http://www.foxnews.com/ politics/2011/06/20/supreme- court-rejects- environmentalists-suit- demanding-power-plant- emissions/#ixzz1Ppy3vayR
--Green Gone Wild: Woman arrested after protesting installation of "smart meter" (VIDEO)
http://www.thegatewaypundit. com/2011/06/woman-arrested- for-refusing-installation-of- smart-meters-in-her- neighborhood-video/
Liberal Univ. of Calif. Davis Study: More gun owners drink too much
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ news/ci_18276826
(Interesting choice of words: "Gun owners who carry concealed weapons or have confronted another person with a gun")
Federal labor board faces double-edged decision
http://www.washingtontimes. com/news/2011/jun/19/nlrb- faces-double-edged-decision/
("Ruling for Boeing union could chase away businesses")
A free world-class education for anyone anywhere...
http://www.khanacademy.org/ about
Florida: Retired Army Special Operations Colonel Mike McCallister for U.S. Senate?
http://shark-tank.net/2011/06/ 19/16189/
Illegal Aliens & Open Borders, Terrorism, Jihad, "Misunderstanders Of Islam", Pro-Palestine / Anti-Israel , Caliphate / Khalifah
North Korea tests 'Super-EMP' nuke
http://www.newsmax.com/ KenTimmerman/super-emp-emp- northkorea-nuke/2011/06/16/id/ 400260
Iranian defector "Reza Kahlili": Iranian Commander Mohammad-Reza Naghdi declared "we have infiltrated America and the U.K."
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ iranian-commander-‘we-have- infiltrated-america-and-the- uk'/?singlepage=true
RINO: Sen. John McCain blames some AZ wildfires on illegal aliens...?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/ US/06/19/arizona.mccain. wildfire.claim/index.html
What 'DEMOCRACY' Looks Like:
--Syria: President Assad insists he is loved as he condemns foreign conspiracy behind protests...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/worldnews/middleeast/ syria/8586447/Syria-president- insists-he-is-loved-as-he- condemns-foreign-conspiracy- behind-protests.html
--Iran: Parliament bans UN human rights reporter
http://en.europeonline- magazine.eu/iranian- parliament-bans-un-human- rights-reporter_136464.html
--U.S. to provide $10 million in food aid to Yemen...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ world/2011-06/20/content_ 12738267.htm
--U.S. Secretary of Defense confirms "outreach" talks with Taliban
http://www.jihadwatch.org/ 2011/06/us-secretary-of- defense-confirms-outreach- talks-with-taliban.html
----Flashback to 2007: Then-candidate Obama excoriates Pakistan for holding talks with Taliban...
http://www.thegatewaypundit. com/2011/06/obama-flashback- barack-the-candidate- excoriates-pakistan-for- holding-talks-with-taliban- video/
("We can't coddle, as we did, a dictator, give him billions of dollars and then he's making peace treaties with the Taliban and militants.")
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"It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, 'never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith.'" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Wayles Eppes, 1813
***City hopes 'homeless meters' will help feed, shelter homeless***
http://bit.ly/ka2OwM
***From Louboutins to combat boots: How a society girl left her glamorous life to become one of America's first women in Iraq***
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
***British Marine killed by Taliban in Afghanistan leaves friends $160G to party in Las Vegas***
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/
***My Friday flight home with a fallen soldier***
http://www.freerepublic.com/
The Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing, Inflation, Free-Market Principles, Gold / Silver, Food Supply
Federal government to float $1 billion in new homeowner bailouts...
http://community.nasdaq.com/
--...interest-free federal "loans" offered to unemployed homeowners, "loans" may NOT have to be paid back...
http://www.boston.com/Boston/
Russia to lower U.S. debt holdings
http://online.wsj.com/article/
("Asked if U.S. debt was as solid an investment now as it was 10 years ago, chief economic aide Mr. Dvorkovich said: "On an absolute basis, yes. On a relative basis, compared to other investments, of course not.")
--Medvedev says wants to see Obama re-elected
http://www.breitbart.com/
Citi says Greek debt may be contagious...
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/citi-
--...country faces power outages due to austerity strike
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/
--Britain's chancellor George Osborne: England "won't bail out Greece again"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
--Op-Ed: Why Greece will bring the euro down with it
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/
Survey: Most Americans unprepared for a personal financial emergency
http://www.theblaze.com/
Do not expect to see gas prices below $3.00/gal. any time soon...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/
Germany: Siemens says U.S. workers lack skills
http://www.cnbc.com/id/
States look to Internet taxes to close budget gaps
http://apnews.myway.com/
--Five Lessons for Deficit Busters (good article)
http://online.wsj.com/article/
("A recent study of successful deficit reductions found they averaged more than $5 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax hikes.")
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar extends moratorium on uranium mining near Grand Canyon, likely to enact a 20-year ban on new claims...
http://blogs.forbes.com/
Big Government, Progressives & Radicals, Communism & Socialism, Redistribution Of Wealth, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Collective Salvation, Liberation Theology
******JOB-SCREENING AGENCY APPROVED BY FTC TO ARCHIVE EVERY FACEBOOK PROFILE******
http://www.allfacebook.com/
("The FTC decided Social Intelligence complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the same set of rules that keeps your bill-payment records on file with the consumer bureaus...")
--******FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LINKEDIN, FLICKR, CRAIGSLIST INFORMATION YOU POST WILL BE STORED FOR SEVEN YEARS******
http://blogs.forbes.com/
Survey: Are Americans becoming more Libertarian-minded?
http://www.theblaze.com/
***Goldman caught manipulating Brent/WTI spread....penalty? $40,340.00***
http://www.zerohedge.com/
Panetta's War on Reagan's Defense Policies – A Time for Choosing
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/
--Panetta Report 4: Leon Panetta's Communist Friend, and the Chinese Spy
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/
What CommieCare looks like:
--U.K.: Woman, 26, died of DVT after NHS walk-in centre nurse 'diagnosed muscular pain using COMPUTER guide'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
---U.K.: The Accountable Care Fiasco
http://online.wsj.com/article/
("Even the models for health reform hate the new HHS rule -- the 429-page rule is a classic of top-down micromanagement.")Supreme Court rejects environmentalists' suit demanding power plant emissions cuts
http://www.foxnews.com/
--Green Gone Wild: Woman arrested after protesting installation of "smart meter" (VIDEO)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.
Liberal Univ. of Calif. Davis Study: More gun owners drink too much
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/
(Interesting choice of words: "Gun owners who carry concealed weapons or have confronted another person with a gun")
Federal labor board faces double-edged decision
http://www.washingtontimes.
("Ruling for Boeing union could chase away businesses")
A free world-class education for anyone anywhere...
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Florida: Retired Army Special Operations Colonel Mike McCallister for U.S. Senate?
http://shark-tank.net/2011/06/
Illegal Aliens & Open Borders, Terrorism, Jihad, "Misunderstanders Of Islam", Pro-Palestine / Anti-Israel , Caliphate / Khalifah
North Korea tests 'Super-EMP' nuke
http://www.newsmax.com/
Iranian defector "Reza Kahlili": Iranian Commander Mohammad-Reza Naghdi declared "we have infiltrated America and the U.K."
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/
RINO: Sen. John McCain blames some AZ wildfires on illegal aliens...?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/
What 'DEMOCRACY' Looks Like:
--Syria: President Assad insists he is loved as he condemns foreign conspiracy behind protests...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
--Iran: Parliament bans UN human rights reporter
http://en.europeonline-
--U.S. to provide $10 million in food aid to Yemen...
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
--U.S. Secretary of Defense confirms "outreach" talks with Taliban
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
----Flashback to 2007: Then-candidate Obama excoriates Pakistan for holding talks with Taliban...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.
("We can't coddle, as we did, a dictator, give him billions of dollars and then he's making peace treaties with the Taliban and militants.")
--
"It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, 'never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith.'" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Wayles Eppes, 1813
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