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Date Sent: 2009-03-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 28, 2009 AM edition |
N.Y. Governor, Lawmakers Agree To Soften Drug Sentencing Laws
Judges’ Kickback Scheme Thrived Despite Red Flags -- US judge orders Iran to pay $25M for Hamas killing -- Thousands flee Fargo ahead of menacing floodwaters -- Russia to Expand Arctic Military
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judges’ Kickback Scheme Thrived Despite Red Flags
03-27-2009
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NY Times
Things were different in the Luzerne County juvenile courtroom, and everyone knew it. Proceedings on average took less than two minutes. Detention center workers were told in advance how many juveniles to expect at the end of each day â€" even before h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
N.Y. Governor, Lawmakers Agree To Soften Drug Sentencing Laws
03-27-2009
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Washington Post
Gov. David A. Paterson (D) and legislative leaders on Friday announced an agreement to roll back the state's strict, 36-year-old drug laws, including eliminating tough mandatory minimum sentences for first-time, nonviolent drug offenders.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
US judge orders Iran to pay $25M for Hamas killing
03-27-2009
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AP
A US judge ordered Iran to pay $25 million plus interest to the family of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, who was kidnapped and executed by Hamas in 1994. Wachsman was a 19-year-old US citizen and corporal in the Israeli Defense Forces when he was
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Spokane residents smuggle suds over green brands
03-27-2009
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AP
The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Thousands flee Fargo ahead of menacing floodwaters
03-27-2009
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AP
Thousands of shivering, tired residents got out while they could and others prayed that miles of sandbagged levees would hold Friday as the surging Red River threatened to unleash the biggest flood North Dakota's largest city has ever seen.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
How to Make a Compost Shower
03-27-2009
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Permaculture.biz
Making a solar shower is easy. But what if the sun is buried behind a blanket of clouds? Do you go without hot water? Watch how Darren Doherty of Permaculture.biz solves the problem.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Man Fined(!) over taking Pickax to photoenforcement Camera
03-27-2009
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Arizona Republic
Sentence Doc A man who damaged a photo-enforcement camera with a pickax was sentenced to 1 year unsupervised probation and fined
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
A Nation of Small Farmers - Start Your Freedom Garden Now!
03-27-2009
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Shirley Braverman
Shirley gives advice on how to Garden on the Cheap. Start your Freedom Garden now!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • World News
Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? If You're Driving, You Just Might Be
03-27-2009
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Wall Street Journal
The village of Schaumburg, Ill., installed a camera at Woodfield Mall last November Many vowed to stop shopping at the mall unless the camera was turned off. The village stopped monitoring right turns at the intersection in January.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Alan Greenspan Speaks
03-27-2009
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arclein
This article by Allan Greenspan needs no comment. The banking hole is close to two trillion dollars of which a third is plugged. The credit contraction is still ongoing and is only stalled because of no liquidity. This is well worth reading. Who is O
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robert klein
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News Link • Drug War
Obama's Missed Opportunity at Online Townhall
03-27-2009
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Paul Levinson
legalizing marijuana makes ethical as well as economic sense
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US plans to rein in Wall Street: New regulatory system
03/26/2009
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By BBC Business News
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has outlined far-reaching plans to strengthen government authority over the US financial system. The measures are designed to prevent the kind of systemic risk-taking among banks that has contributed to the cu
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • World News
Russia to Expand Arctic Military
03-27-2009
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arclein
There is a certain irony to this military nonsense. The battle of the Arctic is at best a war of press releases. I only hope that they establish bases along theirs Arctic coast and discover what has been learned many times in the past. That Mother
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robert klein
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