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Date Sent: 2009-03-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, March 26, 2009 PM edition |
US Plans New Drone Attacks in Pakistan -- Federal DEA Agents Raid SF Medical Marijuana Clinic
Geithner Calls for Major Overhaul of Financial Rules -- Dear AIG, I quit! -- Indicted Miss. Mayor Should Be on Ballot -- I.R.S. to Offer Deal to [wealthy] Tax Evaders -- Cities Deal with Obamavilles -- Nobody Wants Our Treasuries -- 10 prostitution arrests made in Tempe (with the help of the Federal Government) -- States Consider Drug Tests For Welfare Recipients -- 237 Guns From Turkey Marked As Toys Seized At KENTUCKY Airport
March Madness Resumes 7PM EDT Today
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News Link • Drug War
Federal DEA Agents Raid SF Medical Marijuana Clinic
03-26-2009
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KPIX-TV
One week after President Barack Obama's top law enforcement official seemed to indicate the feds would no longer raid pot clubs, DEA agents busted a medical marijuana facility in San Francisco Wednesday night.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. Plans New Drone Attacks in Pakistan
03-26-2009
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Wall Street Journal
U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials are drawing up a fresh list of terrorist targets for Predator drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, part of a U.S. review of the drone program, according to officials involved.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Food
Homegrown Revolution - Radical Change Taking Place
03-26-2009
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Path to Freedom
Localize yourself. Start a Freedom Garden today! “In our society growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can - and will - overturn the corporate powers that be.” (Path to Freedom)
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner Calls for Major Overhaul of Financial Rules
03-26-2009
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NY Times
Included in the plan would be the establishment of one single agency “with responsibility for systemic stability over the major institutions and critical payment and settlement systems and activities.”
To that end, Mr. Geithner said: “Financial pr
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dear AIG, I quit!
03-26-2009
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Yahoo News blog
Jake DeSantis, an executive VP at AIG, is quitting. AIG executive Jake DeSantis' resignation letter to Chief Executive Edward Liddy, the boss he has never met, was published in The New York Times and has created a firestorm across the Internet.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Judge: Indicted Miss. Mayor Should Be on Ballot
03-26-2009
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AP
A judge says Democrats must put the embattled mayor of Mississippi's biggest city back on the ballot for a May primary. Melton didn't meet residency requirements because tax documents list his primary residence as his wife's home in Texas
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Powell Gammill
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![I.R.S. to Offer Deal to [wealthy] Tax Evaders](https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Pix/173/03/173-0326120952.jpg)
News Link • TAXES: Federal
I.R.S. to Offer Deal to [wealthy] Tax Evaders
03-26-2009
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AP
The agency has drafted a plan that significantly lowers a penalty that applies to wealthy Americans who hide money overseas in secret accounts ... to lure out of hiding scores of wealthy people who must come forward and declare their accounts in orde
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Nobody Wants Our Treasuries
03-26-2009
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Washington Post
But the rally lost steam and stocks dipped after an auction for $34 billion worth of five-year Treasury securities drew weaker demand than was expected. Those bidding on the Treasury securities were concerned about a number of factors
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time
03-26-2009
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AP
For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Cities Deal with Obamavilles
03-26-2009
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NY Times
Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
A Day in the Life of Madagascar
03-26-2009
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NY Times
March 17 was a red-letter date in the crisis. That day, I woke my children to get them ready for school. Schools had been closing unexpectedly, because of what happened during the night or what might happen during the day. I sent them anyway. It turn
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
10 prostitution arrests made in Tempe (with the help of the Federal Government)
03-26-2009
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AzCentral.com
Members of Tempe police department's patrol, special investigations and communication divisions, detention staff and members of the U.S. Marshal's office were all a part of Tuesday's effort.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For
03-26-2009
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Google Video
(A Classic - be sure to watch the last 30 seconds)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Global Reserve Currency
03-26-2009
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arclein
China and India today have the growing moral authority to pull this off and it will also enhance their growing stature as they consolidate their economic gains. They needed this market break as badly as the overheated US did. Their cooperation now wo
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Biochar Refresher
03-26-2009
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arclein
Scattered patches of dark, charcoal-rich soil known as terra preta (Portuguese for "black earth") are the inspiration for an international effort to explore how burying biomass-derived charcoal, or "biochar," could boost soil fert
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robert klein
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News Link • Constitution
The Enemy Is in the White House
03-26-2009
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Mark Yannone
Barack Hussein Obama is accused of treason by the military.
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News Link • Philosophy of Liberty
Liberty Rising (video & commentary)
3-26-2009
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Daily Newscaster
Our country has been torn apart, the economy destroyed and our national defense and dignity run-down by foreign and domestic special interest. Our people sold false hopes and dreams that are materializing as nightmares.
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Drug War
States Consider Drug Tests For Welfare Recipients
03-26-2009
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Yahoo! News
A January attempt in the Arizona Senate to establish such a law failed.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • World News
Laser Shines Into Cockpit Of Landing Plane Five Flights Reported Laser Beams This Month
03-26-2009
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Associated Press
Investigators believe it came from about 2 miles north and slightly west of the airport, near the source of previous laser reports.Pilots on five flights reported laser beams earlier this month, four on the same night. A dozen laser reports were file
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Homeland Security
237 Guns From Turkey Marked As Toys Seized At KENTUCKY Airport
03-26-2009
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The Enquirer
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport on Monday seized an arriving international shipment of 60 pump action 12-gauge shotguns and 177 pistols masked as toys.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Science
Cold Fusion Returns
03-26-2009
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arclein
If this is accepted, then cold fusion comes immediately in from the cold and every imaginable strategy will be applied. It is about time that ample good science got done in this field. What happened in 1989 is a blot on scientific integrity.
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robert klein
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Parking Meter Revolt: Frustration Over High Costs
03-25-2009
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cbs2chicago
They are taking more of your quarters every day. And Chicagoans are in revolt. While some are saying enough by avoiding them, others are taking out their frustrations on the parking meters - literally! (Radar gets a mention too)
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Ernest Hancock
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