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Date Sent: 2009-04-03
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 3, 2009 AM edition |
House Approves $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan To Pay for Obama Initiatives
I.B.M. Reportedly Will Buy Rival Sun for $7 Billion -- Government of Thailand Faces Growing Opposition -- North Korea Launch a Test for International Law -- After Big Rally, Asian Markets Are Flat -- Jury: University of Colorado wrongly fired prof -- Gov. Blagojevich indicted on 16 federal felony corruption charges -- Tennessee Town Joins With Military for DHS Road Block -- Woman charged in S. Minn. for making 16 post office bomb threats -- Suicide Bomber-Type’ Vest Found In Mt. Washington
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday; Marc Victor & Shelton's trial
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
House Approves $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan To Pay for Obama Initiatives
04-02-2009
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Washington Post
Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly embraced President Obama's ambitious and expensive agenda for the nation yesterday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion spending plan that sets the stage for the president to pursue his most far-reaching priorities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NATO
NATO Meeting to Highlight Strains on Afghanistan
04-02-2009
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NY Times
NATO leaders will meet in Strasbourg, France, on Friday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an alliance that deterred the Soviet Union, opened the door to emerging democracies, battled ethnic cleansing and now welcomes the return of France as a full
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
I.B.M. Reportedly Will Buy Rival Sun for $7 Billion
04-02-2009
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NY Times
I.B.M. appears on the verge of acquiring Sun Microsystems, a longtime rival in the computer server and software markets, for nearly $7 billion.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Government of Thailand Faces Growing Opposition
04-02-2009
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NY Times
Less than four months after coming to power, Thailand’s fragile government is facing a growing challenge from protesters loyal to its chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The turmoil threatens to return Thailand to the political par
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
North Korea Launch a Test for International Law
04-02-2009
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NY Times
A 1967 U.N. treaty says outer space ''shall be free for exploration and use by all states without discrimination of any kind.'' The communist regime has been careful to follow the spirit of the treaty, keeping the world apprised of it
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
After Big Rally, Asian Markets Are Flat
04-02-2009
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NY Times
A major stock market rally that sent equities higher around the world on Thursday fizzled in Asia on Friday morning despite fresh data from China suggesting that nation’s downturn is bottoming out.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Immigrant Detainee Dies, and a Life Is Buried, Too
04-02-2009
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NY Times
The case underscores the secrecy and lack of legal accountability that continue to shield the system from independent oversight, despite years of escalating Congressional inquiries and new efforts by Obama administration appointees to promote transpa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
XXX Film Spells Lost $$$ for U-Md.
04-02-2009
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Washington Post
Tickets were selling fast for Saturday night's showing of a "XXX blockbuster" at the University of Maryland's student union. (Pirates! Skeletons! An orgy of belly dancers!) Then, like a douse of cold water, the state Senate stepped
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
The Day MLK Died
04-02-2009
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Life magazine
More unpublished pictures of Marin Luther King's assassination aftermath.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
NC: Mexican Illegal Alien Charged with Repeatedly Raping a 6-Year-Old Girl
04-03-2009
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Outraged Patriots
Cumberland County sheriff’s detectives said they have charged an illegal immigrant from Mexico with sexually inappropriate behavior with a 6-year-old girl.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Imperialism (open)
Queen Elizabeth’s Gift to Calderón: Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
04/02/2009
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Infowars.com
President of Mexico Felipe Calderón gave the Queen of England a Maque tray from Michoacan. The Queen gave Calderón a collector’s edition of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Calderón received the book as he bowed and scraped at Bu
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Humor
Watch Ernest Hancock get "Punk'd" in the new Sascha Baron Cohen 'Bruno' movie
04/02/2009
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The Sun (Gawd!)
WAIT A MINUTE! April fool's day was yesterday. That's close enough for libertarians, wouldn't you say?
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Jury: University of Colorado wrongly fired prof
04-02-2009
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AP
A jury ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado wrongly fired the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi, giving him only $1 in damages but a chance to get his job back.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Gov. Blagojevich indicted on 16 federal felony corruption charges
04-02-2009
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CNN
Impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested in December on charges of conspiracy and fraud, was indicted Thursday on 16 felony counts by a federal grand jury, the U.S. attorney's office said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Misleading a Nation of Sheep
04-02-2009
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Mark Yannone
Is it any wonder no one knows the law in America? Never mind. No one was going to enforce it anyway.
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News Link • World News
Tennessee Town Joins With Military for DHS Road Block
04-02-2009
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Barry Natchitoches
The Whiteville Police Department (WPD) will conduct a seat belt checkpoint on Saturday, April 4, 2009, with the U.S. Military
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TERRORISM
Woman charged in S. Minn. for making 16 post office bomb threats
04-03-2009
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STEVE KARNOWSKI , Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS - A Faribault woman already on parole for threatening elected officials in Austin was charged Thursday with making bomb threats against 16 post offices in southern Minnesota.
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • TERRORISM
Suicide Bomber-Type’ Vest Found In Mt. Washington
04-02-2009
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WPXI.com
Workers cleaning out a house in Mt. Washington called police when they found a device with what looked like pipe bombs with wires and nails attached.
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Jim Stachowiak
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