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Date Sent: 2009-04-02
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 2, 2009 AM edition |
Afghan-Pakistan situation dire; more troops needed -- Pentagon seeks $3B for Pakistan military
TSA Union Wants Bargaining Rights -- Obama says other countries need to 'pick up the pace' -- Cuba accuses blogger Yoani Sanchez of "provocation" -- Voluntary test nipped tainted pistachios in bud -- AZ Lawmakers to take a bigger bite out of your paycheck -- Drug Quells Urge to Steal -- Indictment imminent for Blagojevich -- US to boost ports of entry along US-Mexico border -- Gilbert settles SWAT Team raid lawsuit for $185,000 -- Marijuana ingredient may reduce tumors -- TSA illegally detain & threaten Campaign for Liberty employee -- Iraq Government to Execute Gays -- Background on International Banking Conspiracy -- U.S. private sector axes 742,000 jobs in March -- U.S. expands Pakistani drone-strike zone; 12 dead -- Taliban say U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic" -- G-20 protesters break into Royal Bank of Scotland -- Feds drop case against convicted former Sen. Stevens -- US military Intelligence, Surveillance and Recon manuals
The Saturday Morning Arizona Breakfast Club - April 4th - Marc J. Victor & 4409
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Afghan-Pakistan situation dire; more troops may be needed
04-01-2009
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McClatchy News
The situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is "increasingly dire," top defense officials told Congress Wednesday, and they said that President Barack Obama may have to send another 10,000 troops beyond the 21,500 he's announced since tak
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pentagon seeks $3B for Pakistan military
04-01-2009
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AP
The Obama administration plans to seek as much as $3 billion [for bribes] over the next five years to train and equip Pakistan's military, and is considering sending 10,000 more troops to battle the Taliban in Afghanistan, defense officials said
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Union Wants Bargaining Rights
04-01-2009
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Washington Post
Border Patrol agents can do it. So can federal protective officers and U.S. Capitol Police. But Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers at airports across the country, are not allowed to engage in collective bargaining.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
LegiStorm Makes Hill Salaries Easy To Search
04-01-2009
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Washington Post
Friedly became the scourge of Capitol Hill by creating LegiStorm.com, a Web site that makes it super-easy to look up the annual salaries and financial disclosures of congressional staffers. All this stuff is public information, mind you. But it used
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Obama says other countries need to 'pick up the pace'
04-01-2009
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McClathy News
"The world has become accustomed to the United States being a voracious consumer market and the engine that drives a lot of economic growth worldwide," he said. "If there's going to be renewed growth, it can't just be the Unite
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Cuba accuses blogger Yoani Sanchez of "provocation"
04-01-2009
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Yahoo Nes
Sanchez, whose "Generacion Y" blog is critical of Cuba's government and widely read abroad, took the microphone during an event in the Havana Biennial arts festival and read a manifesto saying the Internet was opening a "crack"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Voluntary test nipped tainted pistachios in bud
04-01-2009
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AP
The reason it didn't take dozens of illnesses for federal regulators to learn about salmonella-tainted pistachios has nothing to do with federal regulations. Routine but voluntary testing by a manufacturer for Kraft Foods Inc. first detected the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
AZ Lawmakers to take a bigger bite out of your paycheck
04-01-2009
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East Valley Tribune
Arizona lawmakers are moving to alter the way the state computes what it withholds from worker paychecks in an effort to keep the government afloat. The measure, set for a vote, would have Arizona for the first time ever set its own schedule of withh
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Drug Quells Urge to Steal
04-01-2009
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LiveScience
A drug given to kleptomaniacs took some of the fun out of stealing. "It gets rid of that rush and desire," said a study team member. "The difference in their behavior was significant, and these people were really troubled by their beha
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Deadline near, indictment imminent for Blagojevich
04-01-2009
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AP
An indictment is expected as early as Thursday charging ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with presiding over state government awash in political corruption.
The indictment U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is expected to produce would replace
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Gilbert settles SWAT Team raid lawsuit for $185,000
04-01-2009
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East Valley Tribune
Daniel Ortega, attorney for Salvador and Carlota Celaya, said the settlement will cover the cost of a new home and replace their valuables. "We ultimately came to a figure that was fair on both sides," Ortega said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
US to boost ports of entry along US-Mexico border
04-01-2009
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AP
The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the projects
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Marijuana ingredient may reduce tumors
04-01-2009
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Reuters
The active ingredient in marijuana appears to reduce tumor growth, according to a Spanish study. The researchers showed giving THC to mice with cancer decreased tumor growth and killed cells off in a process called autophagy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mysterious Dark Matter Possibly Detected
04-01-2009
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LiveScience
When dark matter is destroyed, it leaves behind a burst of exotic particles, according to theory. Now scientists have found a possible signature of these remains. The discovery could help prove the existence of dark matter and reveal what it's ma
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
The Dark Side of Vegetarianism
04-01-2009
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Healthday
[hah, I knew it] Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests. The study found that twice as many teens and nearly double the number of young adults who had been v
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
TV's 'Guiding Light' switching off after 72 years
04-01-2009
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AP
CBS is pulling the plug on the soap opera "Guiding Light" after a 72-year run that predates television, the show a victim of the economy and changed viewing habits.
The drama's final episode will air on Sept. 18.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Audio: St. Louis TSA illegally detain & threaten Campaign for Liberty employee. Plus MO. will not in
4-01-2009
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Daily Newscaster
St. Louis Airport TSA thugs threaten Ron Paul supporter and campaign employee Steve Bierfeldt for carrying cash. In a covert audio recording made by the victim TSA agents become angry when he refuses to grovel at their feet and threaten him repeatedl
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D. H. Williams
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News Link • Homeland Security
Inside source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago
04-01-2009
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D. H. Williams
The county should prepare a plan to vaccinate the entire population within 48 hours and practice the plan several times. FEMA inquired to where mass graves could be placed in the county and would they accept bodies from elsewhere.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq Government to Execute Gays
04/01/2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
It has been reported that this week the Iraq government intends to start executing 128 convicted homosexuals.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • World News
A new twist: Initial sequencing of Baxter's H5N1/H3N2 contaminated material begins
04-01-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
A cursory examination reveals several origination possibilities for the virus material. Several key mutations from recent virus sequences in the wild are not present for example, more details on this as sequencing continues
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TERRORISM
Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S.
03-31-2009
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The Washington Times
Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforce
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Foreign Policy
The Suicide-of-American-Sovereignty
03-31-2009
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The Spectator, UK
The Transnational Progressivism policies of the Obama Administration. A good explanation of why America seems to be collapsing so quickly.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Happy Tax Song
04-01-2009
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Musican Ray Stevens
Just hum along as you do your taxes this month and know, your hard earned money is being spent faster than anyone could ever pay it back! Here's the link:
http://susie1114.com/10percentisgoodenough.html
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Monsanto’s Bt Cotton Kills the Soil as Well as Farmers
04-01-2009
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Navdanya
The Navdanya study on the impact of Bt cotton on soil organisms is a wake up to regulators worldwide. It shows that the claims of the Biotechnology industry about the safety of GM crops are false.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Humor
YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS - George Carlin
04-01-2009
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George Carlin - YouTube
George Carlin speaking the truth and poking some fun at it.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Humor
Welcome to the NEW Magical Monetary World of ECONOLAND
04-01-2009
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Economist.com via Reuters via Drudgereport.com
The Economist Group is delighted to announce the development of a public-entertainment facility that combines the magic of a theme park with the excitement of macroeconomics.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Free Speech
CameraFRAUD Taken Down By DHS
04-01-2009
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Internet
"We're sorry, the website you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable"
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James Macey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Geithner's Problem
04-01-2009
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arclein
When Glass - Steagall was repealed at the end of Clinton’s presidency, I wondered what the hell they were thinking. That was the one law that had prevented a repeat of the 1920 to 1929 credit bubble for seventy years. Without it, or a robust regulato
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Magnetic Refrigeration Advancing
04-01-2009
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arclein
The alloy the team has foundâ€"a mixture of manganese, iron, phosphorus and germaniumâ€"is not merely the first near-room-temperature magnetocaloric to contain neither gadolinium nor arsenicâ€"rendering it both safer and cheaperâ€"but also it has such strong
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robert klein
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News Link • Conspiracies
Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About New World Order
03-31-2009
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YouTube
In the video here, the former Clintonite Dick Morris, who is now a darling of Fox News, tells Sean Hannity the globalists will put the American economy under international regulation and those people who have been yelling, oh, the UN is going to take
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. private sector axes 742,000 jobs in March
04-01-2009
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Reuters
Job losses in the U.S. private sector accelerated in March, more than economists' expectations. Private employers cut jobs by a record 742,000 in March versus a 706,000 revised cut in February that was originally reported at 697,000 jobs, said AD
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
American Airlines Will Expand Wi-Fi Access in the Sky
04-01-2009
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Newsfactor
American Airlines will expand its Internet trial with Aircell by installing Gogo Inflight Internet on 300 domestic MD-80 and Boeing 737-800 planes over the next 2 years. It will cost from $7.95 to $12.95 per flight. The American Airlines system will
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
U.S. expands Pakistani drone-strike zone; 12 dead
04-01-2009
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Reuters
A pilotless U.S. drone fired a missile at a Taliban compound in Pakistan's Orakzai region on Wednesday, killing 12 people in the first such attack in the area, a security official and residents said.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Pardon sought for first black heavyweight champ
04-01-2009
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AP
A prominent U.S. senator wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation"s first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.
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News Link • Activism
G-20 protesters break into Royal Bank of Scotland
04-01-2009
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AP
G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in downtown London on Wednesday, breaking into the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and smashing its windows. Earlier, they tried to storm the Bank of England and pelted police with eggs and fruit.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Taliban say U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic"
04-01-2009
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Reuters
Taliban insurgents rejected a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation" as a "lunatic idea" and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan. With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year,
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds drop case against former Sen. Stevens
04-01-2009
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AP
The Justice Dept. said it would drop corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens because prosecutors withheld evidence from the senator's defense team during his trial. The reversal is an embarrassment for the department, which won a convi
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News Link • Obama Administration
Con Law Prof Obama's Warranties
04/01.2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
I graduated second in my Constitutional Law class.Sure glad Professor Barack Obama was not my instructor, or I would have certainly not excelled, but actually flunked Con Law, and never graduated from law school at all...
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Guardian Angels
04-01-2009
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arclein
This is a great story. I do not think it is an April fool’s tale but I think posting on the first is appropriate. That way if you do the test and fail, you can blame my mischievousness. Ed Conrad is a chronic poster on a forum or two that I occasiona
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Newt Gingrich Sounds Alarm on EMP
04-01-2009
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arclein
The threat is worse than described. All our electrical devices will be fried. The internet disappears and all our household devices likely catch fire. They have wonderful coils to overload. All the replacement parts are also fried in our warehouses.
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