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Date Sent: 2009-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, April 16, 2009 PM edition |
Obama to seek ratification of arms treaty -- MISH: State Tax Revenue Drops Most In 50 Years
Fmr. Az State Senator Karen Johnson running for Arizona Governor -- Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol - 11 stitches -- No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding -- Jobless claims top 6M; housing starts plummet -- Obama says U.S. high-speed rail "overdue" -- Barry Hess and Ernie Hancock at the Arizona Tea Party -- The USA Isn't a Country, It's a Corporation! -- Russia declares end to Chechnya 'operation' -- Treasurer signs I.O.U. so Arizona can keep running -- Second Largest Mall Owner Declares Bankruptcy -- Unemployment Insurance: Continued Claims above 6 Million -- I partially repent of Teaparty criticism - by Call Me Oyate -- TX Governor Says Texas Can Secede From The Union -- PA Inspector Targets Old Ladies Selling Homemade Pie at Church Fish-Fry -- Global Population Decline -- Homeland Security Sec. stands by DHS' 'extremism' report
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
No charges against CIA officials for waterboarding
04-16-2009
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AP
The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Jobless claims top 6M; housing starts plummet
04-16-2009
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AP
The number of people receiving jobless benefits exceeded 6 million for the first time, the government reported Thursday, and housing construction unexpectedly plunged to its second-lowest level on record " fresh evidence that the recession is far fro
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama to seek ratification of arms treaty
04-16-2009
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AP
Officials say the inter-American arms trafficking treaty would curb guns and ammunition trafficking that threatens regional security. Officials say the move is meant to show the United States is serious about confronting a security threat on i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
Obama says U.S. high-speed rail "overdue"
04-16-2009
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Reuters
President Barack Obama outlined his plan for "long overdue" high-speed rail on Thursday that would rival air travel, create jobs and help curb the U.S. transportation system's appetite for oil.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Tea Party Arizona Ernest "Freedoms The Answer" Hancock a Real Republican... (Not)
04-16-2009
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YouTube
Arizona Tea Party 4-15-09 Ernest Hancock, Libertarian Activist,
Former Candidate for just about everything breaks down the real concept of freedom.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
The USA Isn’t a Country, It’s a Corporation!
04-16-2009
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Russell Means Freedom
On February 21, 1871 the Forty-First Congress passed an Act titled: “An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia,” which created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, a ten mile square parcel of land. Corp USA.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Police State
Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol - 11 stitches
04-16-2009
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YouTube
That wasn't enough. They wanted to search the car, and I invoked my 4th amendment rights. I DID NOT RESIST OR FIGHT BACK. YET I WAS TAZERED REPEATEDLY AND SHOVED IN BROKEN GLASS REPEATEDLY!
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Subsistence Solar Heating
04-16-2009
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arclein
The value of this device is to displace a lot of charcoal out of the heating market. The device itself is up to the task of producing boiled water and that means hot beverages and also the production of stews. It may not seem like a lot, but if you a
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Bone Healing Halved
04-16-2006
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arclein
Astute observations led a team of clinicians and researchers to uncover how this drug can also boost our bodies' bone stem cell production to the point that adults' bones appear to have the ability to heal at a rate typically seen when they w
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robert klein
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Economy: 267 Gilbert teachers to get pink slips
04-16-2009
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abc15.com/
Administrators targeted the teachers as one area where they could begin to make up a 27 million dollar shortfall for next school year.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dean Martin signs I.O.U. so Arizona can borrow $340 Million
04-16-2009
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AzCentral.com
“If we didn't do this, literally the state shuts down,” Martin said. “It's lights out.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Russia declares end to Chechnya 'operation'
04-16-2009
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CNN
Russia declared an end Thursday to its 10-year anti-terror "operation" in the autonomous republic of Chechnya. The end to the offensive could see the withdrawal of thousands of troops from the Muslim-majority region, where Russia
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Second Largest Mall Owner Declares Bankruptcy
04-16-2009
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Reuters.com
Ending months of speculation, General Growth, along with 158 of its more than 200 U.S. malls, filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors while it tries to restructure some of its debt
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
State Tax Revenue Drops Most In 50 Years; Taxpayers Frugal With Refunds
04-16-2009
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Initial data for the first quarter of 2009 showed 41 states reporting that overall tax collections were down 12.8% in January and February versus the same two months in 2008, the report said.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
3,000 Protest In Nashville
04-16-09
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The Tennessean
Nearly 3,000 protesters gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to take part in a nationwide "Tax Day Tea Party," the latest and largest version of a widespread conservative effort to protest taxes and government spending.
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Melinda Carey
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Texas Governor/Bilderberger Rick Perry Says Texas Can Secede From The Union
04/16/2009
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Raw Story
Perry told an Austin crowd gathered as part of the national “tea party” protests that while there was “no reason” to dissolve the union, “but if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Michelle Muccio the Rebel Economist
04-16-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
Michelle Muccio, the self-proclaimed Rebel Economist, is hot, sexy and smart--and a rising Libertarian Star.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Homeland Security
Ms. Nazi Napolitano stands by 'extremism' report
04-16-2009
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Blacklisted News
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report sent to law enforcement
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Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Food
PA Inspector Targets Old Ladies Selling Homemade Pie at Church Fish-Fry
04-16-2009
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yupfarming
The inspector, who also recently raided a horse and buggy Mennonite dairy farmer, worked for large corporations in the food industry before he became part of PA’s Dept of Agriculture's new policing of traditional community food
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Adam Burke
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News Link • Economy - International
Global Population Decline
04-16-2009
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arclein
A significant decline in human population is beginning and will make itself felt for the rest of the century. Public response has been meager because is has not been particularly obvious and because the memories of the past scare over overpopulation
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robert klein
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