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Hi Everyone,

This is April 8th and I am adding 3 more stories from others to the blog. Remember to tell people about this and get your friends thinking. What kind of Government do you want? Obama give me enough things to talk about. He is wrong about the direction he is taking America. Free Markets and Freedom are still alive. Enjoy the information and have a good day.

Tom Brown
Editor Of North American Freedom

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North American Freedom Newsletter
Issue 2 Vol 1.
April 8,2009


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Homeland Alert #1

HACKETT: Obama lowers our shield

As North Korea launches missiles into orbit

By James T. Hackett | Tuesday, April 7, 2009

www.washingtontimes.coim

COMMENTARY:

It is surprising that North Korea's testing of President Obama by firing a long-range missile should coincide with word from the administration that it plans to slow the major program defending this country against such threats.

When North Korea launched its missile, dozens of radars and other sensors followed it, confirming that its payload fell into the sea. Either its payload was not a satellite or it was one that failed to reach orbit.

For the rest of the story click below

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/07/obama-lowers-our-shield/

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Economic Alert #1

The Oil and Glory Interview: Paul Kennedy

Posted by: Steve LeVine on March 30

www.businessweek.com

Economic historian Paul Kennedy is arguably the West’s most influential scholar on the decline of great powers. When you hear or read someone talking about whether or how America is being eclipsed as the world’s pre-eminent power, you are almost always getting a derivation of Kennedy’s seminal 1987 work, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.

Two narratives are currently going on. One is the global financial turmoil. The second is America’s place in the world now and going forward. To plumb those subjects and others, Oil and Glory caught up with Kennedy by phone at his New Haven, CT., home, where his grandchildren gave him a respite to talk. Here is a related story. And here is the edited interview:

Click on the link below for the rest of the story

http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/russia_oil_politics/archives/2009/03/the_oil_and_glo_2.htm

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Bailout Player Alert #1

Bailout Man Turns the Screws

By Deborah Solomon

USA Inc.

April 7, 2009

online.wsj.com

WASHINGTON -- Late on New Year's Eve, James Lambright, a Treasury Department official, sat waiting impatiently for documents to arrive from Citigroup Inc. He'd just been told by the bank's chief financial officer that Citigroup couldn't reach some executives who needed to sign the paperwork, including one woman whose husband was in the hospital with a heart attack.

"Well then, you know where to find her," Mr. Lambright replied to the finance chief, Gary Crittenden, according to three accounts of the call. "Put someone in one of your fancy black cars and get her to sign the document."

Associated Press

James Lambright (right), bailout deal maker, with ex-Treasury chief Henry Paulson in December.

As the government continues to pour cash into the economy, Mr. Lambright, 38 years old, has become one of the most powerful men in American finance. Unknown to most outside the Treasury building, he's an embodiment of how power in the economy has shifted -- for good or ill -- to Washington



Click on the link below for the rest of the story

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906145595395075.html

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