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Date Sent: 2009-03-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act -- Extensive regulatory overhaul planned
In Afghan War, U.S. Dominance Increasing -- Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade & Guns -- N. Korea Moves Missile to Launch Pad -- House panel endorses Obama's ambitious budget plan -- Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul -- Why cops fear cameras -- Why House Committee wanted Rove behind closed doors
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News Link • Police State
Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act
03-25-2009
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Washington Post
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them "exceptional" tools to help protect national security.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Extensive regulatory overhaul planned
03-25-2009
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NY Times
The Obama administration is proposing an extensive overhaul of financial regulations to increase oversight of such exotic instruments as credit default swaps that have been blamed for contributing to the worst financial crisis to hit the country in s
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Are FEMA And DHS Planning For Martial Law, And More, Near Chicago?
03-25-2009
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Infowars
Listen carefully as the “county official” describes questioning from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security concerning availability of land for mass graves. Here are a few highlights from this newscasters.com article related to this audio clip.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Did Obama Have Anything To Do With The Missing Washington Times Editorial On Banning The Pilot Gun P
03-26-2009
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Debra J.M. Smith
An inside source, an editor for the Washington Times confirmed that the editorial had, in fact, been written by a Washington Times staff member and was removed. He said it was “a decision made by the top levels.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • WAR: About that War
In Afghan War, U.S. Dominance Increasing
03-25-2009
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Washington Post
After years of often testy cooperation with NATO and resentment over unequal burden-sharing, the United States is taking unabashed ownership of the Afghan war.
President Obama's decision to deploy an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan thi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
N. Korea Moves Missile to Launch Pad
03-25-2009
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NY Times
North Korea has placed a long-range missile on a launch pad before a test that the United States, Japan and South Korea said would violate a United Nations Security Council resolution, a news report said Thursday.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexican United States Relations
Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade
03-25-2009
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NY Times
She also came bearing a new White House initiative, to deploy 450 more law enforcement officers at the border, and crack down on the smuggling of guns and drug money into Mexico.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science
Mars Rover Update
03-25-2009
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arclein
The press has almost forgotten our two rovers on their walk about on Mars. That they are still functioning is astonishing and they have made us at home on mars in a way that was never quite possible on the moon. That does suggest that we should sever
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Reported by:
robert klein
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House panel endorses Obama's ambitious budget plan
03-25-2009
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AP
President Barack Obama's allies rallied around his ambitious budget blueprint as he visited the Capitol, and only hours later a House panel endorsed it, pointing the way for major legislation this year on health care, energy and education.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul
03-25-2009
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AP
Majority Leader Reid indicated he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a filibuster. The prospect has ignited Republicans' ire, and key Democratic chairmen don't
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”
03/24/2009
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By Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com
According to the great-grandson John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller the internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Environment
Portrait of a Civil Global Warming Heretic
03-25-2009
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The New York Times
Four years ago eminent scientist Freeman Dyson began publicly stated his doubts about climate change while speaking at Boston University. Dyson announced that “all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated.”
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Reported by:
Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Corruption
Prosecutors Behaving Badly
03-25-2009
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The Agitator
The top drug prosecutor, two police officers, and a retired circuit court judge in Wayne County, Michigan will be arraigned today on charges that they suborned (or in the judge’s case, knowingly allowed) perjury in a case against two alleged cocaine
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Why cops fear cameras
03-25-2009
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Photography is Not a Crime
The headline in today’s New York Times’ article sums up perfectly why so many cops feel threatened by photographers: "When Evidence From Surveillance Cameras Leads to Charges Against Officers."
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Reported by:
Terry Bressi
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News Link • Food
Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup
03-25-2009
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ISIS
Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops.
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Corruption
Prisoner of the System The Pat Kobylak Story
03-25-2009
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Police Abuse.com
According to NY state health records obtained by Policeabuse.com, the Shore Winds has nearly double the number of health code violations to that of other nursing homes in New York (compared to the state wide average).
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
The Criminalization Of Everyday life by Robert Neuwirth
03-25-2009
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City Limits.org via Rense.com
"With zero tolerance, we have finally done it: We have criminalized everyday life."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Activism
Chicagoans Don't Roll Over Like Phoenicians When They're Gouged - They Fight Back
03-25-2009
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cbs2chicago via DrudgeReport.com
While some are saying enough by avoiding them, others are taking out their frustrations on the parking meters - literally! CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports with the anger behind the new meter rate increases.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Bush Administration
Why House Committee wanted Rove behind closed doors
03-25-2009
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Raw Story
The House Judiciary Committee chose to interview former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove behind closed doors because they wanted more time to question him, and not as a concession to Bush Administration representatives, sources say.
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Jim Stachowiak
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