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Date Sent: 2009-04-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 17, 2009 PM edition |
Obama: 'I have not backed off' assault weapons ban -- Pirate Bay Defendants Sentenced to Jail
Georgetown U. Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request -- Returning War Veterans a Focus of an FBI Extremist Probe -- Cop threatens arrests over gay pride flag -- President Obama, Slick Salesman For Banksters? - by Szandor Blestman -- Bush memos parallel claim 9/11 mastermind’s children were tortured with insects -- Secretary Bennett Supports and Endorses Elections Equipment and Procedures -- Three Successes in the War on Immigrants - by Jacob Hornberger / FFF -- DHS Report Says "Disgruntled Military Veterans" Might Be "Rightwing Extremists" - by Chuck Baldwin -- Texas Bill Would Require You to Identify Yourself At All Times -- New World Order 2009 IFC Documentary staring Alex Jones and the Movement -- Crush of Arizona jobless benefit claims swamping state agency -- Joseph Stiglitz Says White House Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue -- The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic - a Demonstration by the Taliban - by Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Gun Rights
Obama: 'I have not backed off' on assault weapons ban
04-17-2009
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thehill.com/
Obama, joined by Mexican President Felipe Calderon at a press conference in Mexico City, said he and Calderon discussed the ban "extensively" during their meeting earlier in the day
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Communications
Pirate Bay Defendants Found Guilty, Sentenced to Jail
04-17-2009
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Boing Boing
It's a race to turn a relatively benign symbiote (the original Napster, which offered to pay for its downloads if it could get a license) into vicious, antibiotic resistant bacteria that's dedicated to their destruction.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Obama Administration
Georgetown U. Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request
04-17-2009
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CNS News
Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ"because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Returning War Veterans a Focus of an FBI Extremist Probe
04-17-2009
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Wall Street Journal
The FBI earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos from bureau headquarters to field offices.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop threatens arrests over gay pride flag
04-17-2009
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AP
A Casa Grande (AZ) police officer threatened to arrest a group of demonstrators for waving a gay pride flag, prompting an investigation by his superiors amid allegations that the officer violated the U.S. Constitution.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama, Slick Salesman For Banksters? by Szandor Blestman
04-17-2009
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American Chronicle via e-mail from Mr. Blestman
I watched another one of Mr. Obama´s speech a couple of days ago on television. I felt as if I had answered the door and let a slick talking vacuum cleaner salesman into my home because he seemed like such a charming person.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Torture
Bush memos parallel claim 9/11 mastermind’s children were tortured with insects
04-17-2009
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RawStory.com
“The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs and were denied food and water by other guards,” the statement read. “They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Three Successes in the War on Immigrants
04-17-2009
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Jacob Hornberger / FFF
While the crises and chaos continue to worsen in the drug war, monetary policy, fiscal policy, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, and foreign policy, at least U.S. officials have three recent successes.
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Reported by:
Brock Lorber
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News Link • Economy - International
Dubai Collapse
04-17-2009
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arclein
Investors have learned once again the horrible reality of real estate. You cannot take it with you. Here that means that half the population will be leaving and never returning and half the space so recently built will stand vacant. Unless the state
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
OPEC notes Demand Chill
04-17-2009
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arclein
You can also be certain that a lot of the recent demand has come from inventory restocking around the world because you may be sure that oil at $150 caused such inventories to be minimized. Right now they have had enough time to be maximized again.
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robert klein
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Texas Bill Would Require You to Identify Yourself At All Times
04-17-2009
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radio.WOAI.com
The Texas Senate has approved a bizarre measure which would require citizens to show some sort of identification to any police officer who demands it, at any time, for any reason, 1200 WOAI news reports.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
New World Order 2009 IFC Documentary staring Alex Jones and the Movement
04-17-2009
Free Streaming FLV Video and the 691mb AVI - 3 and 1/2 hours till the AVI is uploaded and ready for download.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Crush of Arizona jobless benefit claims swamping state agency
04-17-2009
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AZCentral.com
Arizona has added staff, and employees have worked nights and weekends, but a processing backlog persists.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Joseph Stiglitz Says White House Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue
04-17-2009
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Bloomberg.com
Stiglitz said in an interview yesterday. The people who designed the plans are “either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures Up the Mists of Time
04-17-2009
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AfterDowningStreet.org
And now our president"whose own wife and daughters are descendants of slave victims of another era of American atrocities"is telling us we should do the same thing as Germany and Japan: forget and move on
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Jack Gregson
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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 • Arizona's Top News
Karen Johnson says she plans to run for governor
04-17-2009
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Capital Media Services
[A "most viewed" from the Tribune.] Former state legislator Karen Johnson, known during her 12 years at the Capitol for espousing conservative causes, said there needs to be someone willing "to talk about the controversial things.'
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Pastor claims he was unjustly beaten by DPS, Border Patrol
04-17-2009
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AZ Family (BELO TV3)
Steven Anderson is a father of 5, a Baptist pastor, a business owner and a man who was beaten and abused by DPS officers and Border Patrol Agents at a checkpoint on Interstate 8. [See link on site for uncut interview video too.]
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Tempe pastor: Border Patrol beat him at checkpoint
04-17-2009
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ABC15
While sitting in his church, his wife’s hand on the record button, Anderson delivers a harrowing account of a recent encounter at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Arizona.
With large red marks across his forehead, he said after refusing to answer a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
The Third Law of Liberty
04-19-2009
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Just a Girl in Short Shorts
For the first time in the history of the United States, citizens will be searched when leaving the country. This is an example of the Third Law of Liberty.
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Politics: General Activism
I'm still listening to liberals.
04-17-2009
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Daily Kos
Listen to this guy carefully. Don't worry about what's inaccurate and don't allow yourself to get offended. I'm sure you will find this fascinating. A leftist reflects upon us and uses this to further general understanding of politica
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Found Zero
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News Link • Energy
Obama Administration Going Nuclear
04-17-2009
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arclein
I have it on good intelligence that the Obama administration is preparing to aggressively promote a major expansion of America’s nuclear energy capacity as the quickest way to fast track the huge amounts of fresh grid energy needed to supply the rapi
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Reported by:
robert klein
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