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Date Sent: 2009-03-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
Senate Sends $410 Billion Bill to Obama -- US Intel: Iran has no weapons-grade uranium
Somali Americans Recruited by Extremists -- Handgun's Color Leads to Lawsuit -- Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease -- Obama Cabinet: Despite what Congress says, Cuba treated just like always -- Disabled men forced into 'fight club' by staff at Texas state facility -- Pelosi Made Repeated Requests for Military Aircraft -- Home from the war... and our troops are greeted by abuse from Muslim protesters -- Report slams 'crude' effort to fight Web militants -- Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer -- Warmonger Biden warns of 'deteriorating' Afghan situation -- Statistician says US joblessness near Depression highs -- Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars -- There's no worse crime than scaring a cop - by J.D. Tuccille -- Ron Paul on Alex Jones Radio 3-10-09 -- Ala. gunmen kills 9, himself in shooting spree -- Genetically Modified Goats Receive FDA Approval - by Barbara Peterson -- The Southern Avenger: Axis of the Expendable: Frum vs. Limbaugh -- HR 875 Criminalizing Organic Farming and the Backyard Gardener -- Pelosi: Congress Needs to 'Keep the Door Open' to Second Stimulus Package
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arrests of Right-to-Die Officials Draw Notice to Assisted Suicide
03-10-2009
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NY Times
An undercover state investigator told a right-to-die network that he wanted to kill himself. In response, he later testified, officials of the network planned to have him asphyxiate himself with a helium-filled face mask while holding down his arms.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Somali Americans Recruited by Extremists
03-10-2009
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Washington Post
Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and their potential role in the disappear
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • China
In China, Would-Be Protesters Pay a Price
03-10-2009
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Washington Post
Ji, 59, a self-taught legal advocate who had spent 10 years fighting against corrupt officials in his home province of Fujian on China's southeastern coast, immediately packed his bags and was one of the first in line in Beijing to file his appli
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Senate Sends $410 Billion Bill to Obama
03-10-2009
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Washington Post
The Senate gave final approval last night to a $410 billion spending bill to fund most of the federal government for the remainder of the year after overcoming a resilient Republican opposition and several Democratic defections
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Handgun's Color Leads to Lawsuit
03-10-2009
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Washington Post
A D.C. woman filed suit in U.S. District Court, claiming that the city would not let her register a pistol because of its color. Tracey A. Hanson argued that her application to register a .45-caliber semiautomatic was denied because the gun is not on
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease
03-10-2009
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Jeffrey M. Smith
Particle bombardment can cause unpredictable changes and mutations in the DNA, which might result in new types of proteins that can have allergenic or toxic properties, but no one at Monsanto had done a safety assessment on them.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Obama Cabinet: Despite what Congress says, Cuba treated just like always
03-10-2009
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McClatchy News
The Senate was expected to vote on a $410 billion spending bill that contains provisions that would make trade and travel to Cuba easier. But letters from Treasury Secretary Geithner has assured the lawmakers who helped block the bill last week that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Disabled men forced into 'fight club' by staff at Texas state facility
03-10-2009
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AFP
Profoundly disabled young men were forced into "fight club" style battles by the people hired to care for them in a Texas residential facility, police said. The staged battles -- which appear to have been going on for at least two years --
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Pelosi Made Repeated Requests for Military Aircraft, Documents Show
03-10-2009
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FOX News
Pelosi has abused the system in place to accommodate congressional leaders and treated the Air Force as her "personal airline."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Home from the war... and our troops are greeted by abuse from Muslim protesters
03-10-2009
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Daily Mail
200 men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment had a right to expect a heroes’ welcome on a homecoming parade. Instead, they were faced with the hate-filled jeers of anti-war protesters waving placards saying: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Report slams 'crude' effort to fight Web militants
03-10-2009
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Reuters
Western governments have overstated the role the Internet plays in the recruitment of militants, and measures to block extremist material are "crude, expensive and counterproductive", a report said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer
03-10-2009
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Reuters
An auction of foreclosed homes in New York City drew protesters who blamed banks for an epidemic of home losses and called for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures. Two dozen people marched outside a Manhattan convention center where Real Estat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Iran has no weapons-grade uranium, Congress told
03-10-2009
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Irish Times
Iran lacks weapons-grade highly enriched uranium and has not yet made a decision on whether to produce any, US intelligence officials told Congress today. Director of national intelligence Dennis Blair and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Warmonger Biden warns of 'deteriorating' Afghan situation
03-10-2009
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AP
US Vice President Joe Biden urged NATO members to jointly confront al-Qaida and other extremist groups in Afghanistan where he said instability threatens all of the alliance's members equally. Biden told the allies the US was open to talks with T
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
A forerunner of credit-card debt helped spawn the Revolutionary War
03-10-2009
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Scholars & Rogues
Even a personage as august as George Washington had reasons other than unadulterated fealty to Lady Liberty for rejecting foreign rule. Beyond onerous English taxation, what galvanized him was the18th century version of credit card debt
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Shoe hurled at Ahmadinejad in Iranian city
03-10-2009
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Haaretz
A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported. The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Statistician says US joblessness near Depression highs
03-10-2009
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Reuters
The U.S. unemployment rate would be 19.1%, close to the level during the Great Depression, using the methodology that prevailed 80 years ago, according to Shadowstats.com. According to the official Labor Department figures, the jobless rate jumped to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Kim wins re-election with 99.9% turnout
03-10-2009
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AP
Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, state media said, in elections closely watched for signs of a political shift or hints the autocratic leader is grooming a successor. Turnout Sunday was 99.98 percen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists' cash, cars
03-10-2009
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Chicago Tribune
You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you're African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it"at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Jerry Rigged Finger
03-10-2009
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Henri Bergius
Jerry had a motorcycle accident and lost a finger. When the doctor working on the artificial finger heard he's a hacker, he suggested adding a USB "finger drive" to the design. Now he carries a Linux distribution and Freddy Got Fingered
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
There's no worse crime than scaring a cop
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J.D. Tuccille
03-10-2009
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The Examiner
The worst crime in the word may be making a government official wet his pants. Read between the lines, and that's the real offense committed by Justin Chilton who responded to post-midnight pounding on the door with a gun in hand
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Patriot … or traitor? You decide.
03-10-2009
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Curmudgeon's Corner
This video was made by a serving United States Marine. Because of his words - he must conceal his identity - a tragedy for this hero who has taken an oath in blood to defend his nation and Constitution
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ron Paul on Alex Jones Radio 3-10-09
03-10-2009
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Alex Jones
Alex welcomes back Dr. Ron Paul to talk about the “stimulus” bill. Additional guests include Freedom Phoenix's own editor Terry Bressi of Checkpoint USA, a website dedicated to exposing the proliferation of suspicionless checkpoints in America
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ala. gunmen kills 9, himself in shooting spree
03-10-2009
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AP
[Here comes the Assault Weapons Ban.] A gunman went on a shooting spree in 2 Alabama towns, killing 9 people before he shot himself. Police are investigating at least 4 separate shootings, all believed to be done by one gunman, whose name was not rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Freedom in the 50 States
03-10-2009
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Mercatus Center
Which states are the most free and which the least? According to this report, NH, CO, and SD are the winners, and AZ places in the top 10 thanks to its gun laws, alcohol regulations and taxes, private- and home- school regulations...
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Housing
National House Prices Drop 3.5% in January
03-10-2009
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housingwire.com/
Some areas of the country saw one month price drops of over 8 percent, included in this list are the following, The District of Columbia, Shelby TN, Alameda CA, Plymouth MA, and Denver CO.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Food
HR 875 Criminalizing Organic Farming and the Backyard Gardener
03-10-2009
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campaignforliberty.com/
Didn't Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply? Didn't Stalin use the food to control the people?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Pelosi: Congress Needs to 'Keep the Door Open' to Second Stimulus Package
03-10-2009
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Foxnews.com
"We are going to need more taxpayer money ... I think another stimulus package is a reasonable assumption because of the way things are going," Zandi said.
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Jack Gregson
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